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Thoroughly-new version of LockRattler now available

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With completely new code, a new interface, optional authentication, even a new Help book and icon, LockRattler 4 should be more robust and useful.

December 11, 2017 Macs, Technology

xattr: com.apple.rootless, protects with SIP

Marks a folder or file as being protected by SIP. Widespread among kernel extensions, and Apple’s bundled apps.

December 11, 2017 Uncategorized

xattr: com.apple.quarantine, the quarantine flag

This UTF-8 string contains the Gatekeeper score, the system time of download, downloading agent, and the event UUID. Can force a full Gatekeeper check.

December 11, 2017 xattr

xattr: com.apple.TextEncoding, reveals text file encoding

Indicates the encoding used for the contents of the text file, e.g. UTF-8, Macintosh, Windows-1252. Used in many text documents.

December 11, 2017 xattr

Last Week on My Mac: Documenting the hidden

They may not cause many problems, but xattrs are both very useful and extensively used by macOS and third-party products. It’s time to discover more, and document them.

December 10, 2017 Macs, Technology, xattr

The correct and current version of MRT can be either 1.26 or 1.27

For the moment, until Apple pushes a future update to bring it to version 1.28 at least, your […]

December 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple may or may not have updated MRT to version 1.27 (updated)

Comments to articles here show that some Mac users have, in the last day or so, received silent […]

December 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

Extended attributes in High Sierra 10.13.2

Even a lean and simple High Sierra system has many xattrs of many types, and plenty of files still have ‘resource forks’. Plus details of some important xattrs used by Apple’s system files.

December 8, 2017 Macs, Technology, xattr

Apple has pushed another security update

Gatekeeper’s data files are updated to version 134, and MRT may also be undergoing update too.

December 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

What’s really in the High Sierra 10.13.2 update

As expected, the macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 update contains a great deal more than the three relatively minor […]

December 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

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