To check the integrity of important documents, we’re going to calculate their SHA256 digests. But where should those be stored if HFS+ and APFS don’t have a suitable attribute?
Category Archive: Macs
Preview has strange behaviour when adding and editing annotations, even in Catalina. It quickly gets upsetting and unreliable.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 41. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Trackpad […]
If macOS can’t do it, how should we check the integrity of important files? Use a checksum, or a hash function? And which?
Postponing WWDC and the release of macOS 10.16 might seem sensible, but could lose purpose for Apple’s engineers and see third-party support vanish.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re still allowed to do. 1: First a […]
A couple of important issues to be aware of when using SilentKnight or LockRattler.
We take for granted that our files remain uncorrupted, but know that isn’t always true. How can we fix or even detect such changes?
Apple has pushed two updates today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
Major improvements for all users, including more flexible main window, multiple selection, and support for macOS xattr flags for preservation.
