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		chrisnolet on Oct 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Run dedicated iOS Simulators in the brows... Simulator instances aren't sandboxed, so you can transverse the master system's file system with a malicious iOS app. This is indeed an attack vector.

shortstuffsushi on Oct 22, 2014 [–]

Huh, indeed they are not. Was able to pull a file off my desktop through Safari. Was not aware of that.

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