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Category Archive: Macs

Helper tools, Mojave’s privacy, and High Sierra: intricate relationships

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With Mojave’s release 11 days away, its privacy protection looks even more complex, particularly when an app uses a helper tool which needs Full Disk Access.

September 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

Preparing to upgrade to Mojave: a checklist

Practical tips for those intending to upgrade early, from checking compatibility, preparing workarounds, to making a copy of the installer.

September 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Price of Free Software: Trend Micro’s apps exfiltrate your browser history

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Surely you don’t mean the Trend Micro? The cybersecurity experts? No – it must be a fake site. But is it?

September 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

Repairing permissions diagrammed

Why might we want to repair permissions, and how does it differ now from what is used to be? As shown in a clear diagram.

September 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: App Store Eavesdroppers

The Mac App Store has been selling (or giving) us spyware. How can Apple ever live this down?

September 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Security, privacy, and why XProtect won’t stop apps reading your email

The differences between security and privacy, why we need effective controls over both, and how those controls are different.

September 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

Privacy + Scripting = Problems

Control of one app by another is an important but difficult aspect of Mojave’s new privacy controls. Here’s how it handles that at present, and some of the issues it raises.

September 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Working with Mojave’s Privacy Protection

For many users, privacy controls in Mojave will pass almost unnoticed. Here are tips for those who have greater demands, and want their apps to access protected data.

September 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

Should you upgrade to Mojave early?

Which version of macOS are you intending to be running at the end of this month? Should you upgrade to Mojave either when it is released, or soon afterwards?

September 5, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed its weekly update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 154, […]

September 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

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