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Espionage => Espionage 3 => Topic started by: wesley on January 06, 2013, 11:03:56 PM

Title: Protecting applications without kernel extension is possible
Post by: wesley on January 06, 2013, 11:03:56 PM
I recently came across MacFort which has the ability to protect applications and folders with a password (the functionality which was removed from Espionage). They do this without a kernel extension, instead they intercept the application launch in some different way (their words). Is it really not possible for Espionage to do something similar?

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Title: Re: Protecting applications without kernel extension is poss
Post by: zsolt on January 07, 2013, 06:26:27 AM
Everything is possible, so your question would simply be a request for Espionage 3 to provide this functionality, correct?

Why does MacFort capable to do that I do not know, it might be that it came later, or it was not possible to provide the other functionality of Esp which MacFort does not have, withouth Kernel Ext etc.

I will file a feature request as described above.

Thanks for your input,
Zsolt
Title: Re: Protecting applications without kernel extension is poss
Post by: wesley on January 07, 2013, 10:58:42 AM
Thank you, yes, it's a feature request :) It was said in the past that a kernel extension was necessary and this made things more complicated whenever a new version of mac os x comes out it may fail. But it appears now that there are ways to accomplish this without any sort of kernel extension.

Thanks.