How Kernel Prelinking Works on macOS Catalina (or not)

Christian on Mac, Little Snitch, Developer — October 11, 2019

Update on October 30, 2019: This issue is fixed in macOS 10.15.1. In this article we’d like to outline some technical details about how the installation of a kernel extension works on macOS Catalina, about potential pitfalls in this process, what…

The Story Behind CVE-2019-13013

Christian on Mac, Security, Little Snitch, Developer — August 26, 2019

This blog post targets fellow software developers. It’s a story of how it could happen that we shipped a version of Little Snitch with a serious vulnerability and, more importantly, what we can learn from it. It all began with a security…

Using Swift Protocols to Separate Socket Functionality

Marco on Swift, Developer — June 9, 2016

This blog post is the fifth in a five part series about POSIX Sockets in Swift and our SocketWrapper Library: A POSIX Socket API Wrapper in Swift Modeling Simple Data in Swift: struct versus typealias Low-Level Network Address Resolving in Swift…

Representing Socket Addresses in Swift Using Enums

Marco on Swift, Developer — May 23, 2016

This blog post is the fourth in a five part series about POSIX Sockets in Swift and our SocketWrapper Library: A POSIX Socket API Wrapper in Swift Modeling Simple Data in Swift: struct versus typealias Low-Level Network Address Resolving in Swift…

Low-Level Network Address Resolving in Swift

Marco on Developer, Swift — May 2, 2016

This blog post is the third in a five part series about POSIX Sockets in Swift and our SocketWrapper Library: A POSIX Socket API Wrapper in Swift Modeling Simple Data in Swift: struct versus typealias Low-Level Network Address Resolving in Swift…

Modeling Simple Data in Swift: struct versus typealias

Marco on Developer, Swift — April 15, 2016

This blog post is the second in a five part series about POSIX Sockets in Swift and our SocketWrapper Library: A POSIX Socket API Wrapper in Swift Modeling Simple Data in Swift: struct versus typealias Low-Level Network Address Resolving in Swift…

A POSIX Socket API Wrapper in Swift

Marco on Developer, Swift — April 8, 2016

This blog post is the first in a five part series about POSIX Sockets in Swift and our SocketWrapper Library: A POSIX Socket API Wrapper in Swift Modeling Simple Data in Swift: struct versus typealias Low-Level Network Address Resolving in Swift…

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