When the user wants to access protected data using an app which doesn’t have the entitlement, the result is at best confusing, and could end up with a crash.
Category Archive: Macs
Search is getting worse: only 2 good hits in the first 15. The time has come for independent benchmarks to provide Google and others with consumer-oriented targets.
Comparing the contents of archive files, such as .sit(x) and .zip archives, can be simple, but quickly gets more complex.
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.
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, […]
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