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IAP 2012 Activity


Code Injection for Fun and Profit
Rian Hunter
Tue Jan 24, 07-09:00pm, 4-237

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Ever since Dropbox has launched it has had deep integration with the Finder, Apple's file manager for Mac OS X. What most people don't know is that Apple doesn't actually provide any APIs for third-parties to integrate with the Finder. In this talk I'll explain the low-level code injection techniques & exploits used on Mac OS X to get the Finder to include Dropbox in the toolbar, sidebar, context menu, and over each file icon.
Web: http://sipb.mit.edu/iap
Contact: Rian Hunter, rian@dropbox.com
Sponsor: Student Information Processing Board
Cosponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Latest update: 03-Jan-2012


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