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Mojave fixes QuickLook cache vulnerability

It is easy to browse images and other documents in the QuickLook cache in High Sierra and earlier, but Apple has not blocked this – details here.

October 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

When you can’t get macOS to forget

The greatest skill in memory is not the remembering, but knowing what to forget – something that macOS is useless at. Why doesn’t it clear out its old crud?

July 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

Don’t get cached out: the perils of cached data

Sometimes cached data are not as concealed or transient as we might wish. Don’t get cached out by them.

January 26, 2016 Language, Macs, Technology

The Steam Christmas breach: more details and a call to action

It turns out that Steam’s leak of personal data was very large, did contain sensitive personal information, and was the result of a denial of service attack. Has it been reported, though?

December 31, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Unexpected Christmas presents: how Steam served the wrong user data

A single point of failure which discarded all privacy protection is hardly an example of good design.

December 27, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

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