Over a million people learned that very personal details of their had been leaking from an unsecured server. What should we learn?
Catalina
Newly-built apps supplied by developers outside the App Store need now to be notarized. This in turn requires hardening, but what is that?
Do you want to see exactly what protected resources an app can try to access? Or check that your own app is correctly configured?
Over 9 months ago, document versioning became available across iCloud Drive, but had several major flaws. How has it improved since?
Menubar tool to manage files in iCloud. Minor update now checks its own integrity when run, and is compatible with Catalina.
Recommended update, as it lets you change the size of most of its text, and saves window position and size. Compatible with Catalina too.
An unexpected behaviour in the codesign command could cause the app to crash when examining certain app. Now fixed, plus several new features.
Uninstall an app and it vanishes from the Privacy tab. But it hasn’t really gone – those consents will be reactivated if the app is replaced. Without you being informed.
macOS doesn’t handle significant errors and failures well, burying them away in the log. It needs to report them to the user through a new sub-system.
For once, Mojave’s privacy protection worked in favour of the user, in stopping Zoom’s old app from regaining access to your camera and microphone.
The Eclectic Light Company 