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Last Week on My Mac: Should Apple have warned users of a vulnerability?

Did Apple keep quiet for more than 3 months about the leak of encryption passphrases into High Sierra’s log files?

March 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 still leaks encryption passwords in plain text

I previously described a serious vulnerability in macOS High Sierra versions to 10.13.1 which was discovered by Sarah […]

March 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Is the unified log private, or a vulnerability?

How good is the new unified log’s privacy? Does it live up to Apple’s goal of designing privacy into the system, or is it easily beaten? And how did passwords leak into the log?

March 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

Another gaping security hole in High Sierra APFS disk encryption (updated)

Congratulations to Sarah Edwards for unearthing a security vulnerability in macOS 10.13 High Sierra, in which copies of […]

March 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

What to do when a disk image won’t mount

You have double-clicked on a disk image, and macOS refuses. Here is what you can do to get that image to mount, even when it’s damaged.

February 6, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

Further spurious ‘security’ updates, and who is com.apple.mac.install?

For no apparent reason, Sierra has again downloaded and installed an old ‘security’ update from 2016. Not only that, but it does its utmost to prevent you from finding out, even when studying the log. At least 5 bugs!

February 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

iOS 11.2.5 may harm the Watch-iPhone relationship

I haven’t written much about my first-generation Apple Watch, because like all good watches, it has just got […]

January 26, 2018 General, Macs, Technology

iCloud Drive can strip (meta)data from your documents

Don’t use iCloud Drive to copy docs between Sierra and High Sierra, as they may well lose metadata in the process. Bug or feature?

January 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

Safari offline reader is rapidly becoming functionless

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Offline reading is an important feature for many Safari users, particularly on iOS devices and laptop models. So why doesn’t it work?

December 28, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

There’s something wrong with that file: could it be a xattr issue?

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There’s something wrong with that file, which seems to keep crashing an app. When you can’t put your finger on what’s wrong, it’s likely to be a xattr problem.

December 13, 2017 Macs, Technology, xattr

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