Stepping through the key stages of opening an app in High Sierra. First, a ‘regular’ open, then with the quarantine flag, showing Gatekeeper checks and translocation.
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A notarized version, which should benefit all users, and pass Mojave’s Gatekeeper checks in full.
I’m all in favour of better security, so long as it doesn’t make my life any more difficult. Does Notarization fulfil that?
The same code as 4.8, but now with the additional protection of Apple’s Notarization, ready for Mojave and beyond.
I’ve got two volumes showing in the Finder. So how come diskutil list tells me I’ve got four disks with a total of 12 partitions?
While we’re worrying about 32-bit apps, something else is changing which is likely to stop many more apps from working properly. In the near future.
Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 149, […]
This new version adds a simple tool to discover any differences in extended attributes between two files.
Failed EFI firmware updates should be self-healing in recent models, but what do you do if your T2 Mac messes up a firmware update? Full details revealed.
It contains EFI firmware updates for other models, some already out of date, and a complete set of kernel extensions, again. Why?
The Eclectic Light Company 