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Month: March 2018

macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 still leaks encryption passwords in plain text

I previously described a serious vulnerability in macOS High Sierra versions to 10.13.1 which was discovered by Sarah […]

March 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Moved by Gauguin: In Memoriam Władysław Ślewiński

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After fleeing from Poland to Paris, he became a student of Paul Gauguin at Pont-Aven in 1889, and moved to Le Pouldu in 1894. He died 100 years ago.

March 24, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Find files fast with locate

A simple command tool which covers the parts that Spotlight can’t reach. Looking for an elusive command tool? Use locate.

March 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Secrets of the Vatican and Nelson’s Dockyard: Canace and Laodamia

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Final two stories, of a brother and sister caught in an incestuous relationship, and one of the many widowed Greeks from the Trojan war. Very different paintings hidden away.

March 23, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Is the unified log private, or a vulnerability?

How good is the new unified log’s privacy? Does it live up to Apple’s goal of designing privacy into the system, or is it easily beaten? And how did passwords leak into the log?

March 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pigment: Ground glass (Smalt)

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Take some blue glass, grind it, and turn it into paint: Smalt is one of the strangest of pigments. It extensively used until replaced by Prussian Blue in the early 1700s, and is making a comeback.

March 22, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Owners and groups in the Finder and command line

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Changing permissions is straightforward in the Finder or command line. But how would you go about changing a file/folder’s owner or group?

March 22, 2018 Macs, Technology

Another gaping security hole in High Sierra APFS disk encryption (updated)

Congratulations to Sarah Edwards for unearthing a security vulnerability in macOS 10.13 High Sierra, in which copies of […]

March 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

Ripples in Reality: The Landscape Paintings of Frits Thaulow, 2

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He returned to one theme repeatedly: reflections in the rippled and turbulent surface of a river.

March 21, 2018 General, Life, Painting

macOS Unified log: 3 finding your way

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Waypoints identified for shutdown and startup, login, system sleep and wake, and fast user switching. How to write to the log from a shell script, and accessing the separate installation log. Finally, security and audit.

March 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

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