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How to run apps in private

Certificate revocation checks in macOS could be misused in surveillance. How could you prevent that without putting your Mac at risk?

February 23, 2021 Macs, Technology

Code-signing requirements for scripts and apps in Big Sur

Does Big Sur require you to sign your own apps or other code using a proper Apple-issued signature? What about notarization and quarantine? Your questions answered.

February 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

When you don’t have permission to run an app on an M1 Mac

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You try to open an app on your M1 Mac, only to see an alert telling your that you don’t have permission to open it. Only that isn’t the reason.

January 26, 2021 Macs, Technology

Notarisation: privacy controls

Final in series. Examines how the hardened runtime controls access to protected private data and services, and how some use private entitlements.

January 8, 2021 Macs, Technology

Notarization: the hardened runtime

Second in the series. Considers in detail what the hardened environment offers the user, and how notarized apps can opt out of its protection.

January 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

How Big Sur checks Universal Apps

If you were to strip unwanted code from a Universal App, would it still pass Big Sur’s strict security checks?

November 23, 2020 Macs, Technology

Code signatures: 3 Fixing signature problems

If you have no other option and can be certain there’s no danger in doing so, you can remove a signed app’s signature. But it may not be so simple.

November 3, 2020 Macs, Technology

Building and notarizing command tools as Universal binaries

Stepping through building it correctly in Xcode, turning it into an Installer package getting it notarized and the ticket stapled to the tool.

August 27, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple Silicon Macs will require signed code

Coming now to Apple Silicon Macs: all ARM-native executable code is required to be signed. Full details of this important change.

August 22, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Nobbled and hobbled by notarization

Who’s been ghost notarizing other people’s apps, and is Catalina wasting time to check whether shell scripts are notarized?

May 24, 2020 Uncategorized

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