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Santa is a binary authorization system for macOS, aptly named since its main purpose is to keep track of binaries that are either naughty or nice. Santa is made up of a kernel extension (or a system extension on macOS 10.15+) that monitors and participates in execve() decisions, a userland daemon that makes the execution decisions, a GUI agent that shows notifications when an execve() is blocked, and a command-line utility that oversees system management and the synchronization of database and server. ...

Just as webpages grew bloated with ads, so too have ad blockers grown bloated with little-used filtering rules and features that sap their speed and hog your computer or device’s disk space, CPU cycles, and memory. Adblock Fast executes a mere 7 optimized filtering rules to accelerate pages 8x more but consume 6x less system resources than other ad blockers do. Adblock Fast was created and is maintained by Rocketship, an award-winning app studio whose mission is to design and develop the...

Paranoid Android is a security enhancer for Mac OS X. Whenever an application asks the operating system to open a URI, Paranoid Android steps in and asks the user for confirmation before it can be opened.

USRBAC is a kernel patch and userspace daemon that allows role based access control to be mitegated in userspace. The goal is to allow a secure way to impliment RBAC compliant security systems using a daemon in userspace