Contrasts how passwords and passkeys work, and how passkeys can be protected using iCloud, and Apple’s iCloud keychain escrow.
Category Archive: Macs
How is Ventura looking now? Is it fully baked yet, and ready for release? Includes links to articles to help you decide and prepare for next weeks’ macOS upgrade.
How you can use the taskpolicy command to confine all the threads of a process to the E cores, as a brake, but there’s no accelerator in macOS.
Solving repeated requests for passwords, telling the genuine from the bogus, how passwords can become mismatched, and more.
Signing out of iCloud and signing back in fixed a problem with syncing, but it also turned SIP off in an ‘unknown’ way, something SilentKnight didn’t understand. Updates included for SilentKnight and silnite.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 173. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Vigilant […]
How can the two E cores in an M1 Pro or Max equal performance of the four in the original M1? Why does running two threads complete in half the time taken to run one?
There’s a steady stream of users discovering their Macs have been skipping important security updates since June. How come?
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Vigilant window you […]
What are keychains? What do they store? Which are essential on Macs, and why do you get prompted to enter your password for access to them? How secure are they in iCloud?
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