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Category Archive: Technology

Preparing for new security rules: how signatures can get stripped

A future version of macOS (?10.16) will check code signatures more thoroughly than at present. Here’s what to do to start preparing for that.

November 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 20

Did you get all three this week?

November 11, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Time Machine and backing up in Catalina

Time Machine has changed in Catalina, but details haven’t been provided. How best to prepare to upgrade, and how to address its problems.

November 11, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Welcome to the managed environment?

It’s not very often that we see the birth of a whole new subsystem both in macOS and iOS, but RunningBoard is brand new with 10.15 and 13.

November 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 20

Here, for the 20th anniversary, isn’t a TAM, but three hopefully easier riddles to keep you puzzled. Solutions on Monday.

November 9, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Catalina’s log can’t be unprivatised

How can you inspect log entries censored with in Catalina? Apparently you can’t any more.

November 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

How RunningBoard tracks every app, and manages some

How this new part of macOS tracks the apps which you open, and declares when they exit “Death Sentinel fired!”

November 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

Safe Booting in Catalina has changed

Disk integrity checks appear to have been dropped from Safe Boot. OpenDirectory databases are rebuilt. With a full listing of all blocked extensions.

November 8, 2019 Macs, Technology

Hardened runtime, sandboxing and XPC services

Jeff Johnson of @lapcatsoftware has just published an excellent technical article looking at controversial issues over hardening, sandboxing, […]

November 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

RunningBoard: a new subsystem in Catalina to detect errors

RunningBoard is new to macOS 10.15 and iOS 13. It’s very active in the log, and can cause apps to crash sometimes. So what does it do?

November 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

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