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Removing privacy censorship from the log

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A revamped configuration profile to remove censored private data from log entries, and how to get network diagnostic data too.

March 8, 2023 Macs, Technology

Explainer: TLS, VPN and Private Relay

Unscramble what HTTPS, SSL, TLS, VPNs and Apple’s Private Relay do, and how they could be used to protect you.

March 5, 2022 Macs, Technology

How to deal with a site with a broken certificate

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What to do when your browser complains that a website you want to visit has a problem with its certificate security.

October 30, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Brolly 1.1 now does its own testing of secure connections

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Now checks which versions of TLS a server supports, and gives details of its full headers with caching disabled.

October 8, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Brolly: a utility to help understand failed secure connections

A convenient utility to check secure connections under ATS using the nscurl command tool. For El Capitan to Monterey.

October 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Security certificates

Why do we keep having problems with security certificates when they’re just supposed to work? A look at what they do, and they work.

October 2, 2021 Macs, Technology

Why won’t Safari open that web page?

Did you think it was only old Mac OS X affected by the Let’s Encrypt certificate expiry problem? No, it’s Safari wherever you can use it. Here’s how to deal with it.

October 1, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

How to get more detail in the log

There’s no shortage of entries, but are they the ones you need, and do they contain the information that’s important? How to change that.

June 11, 2020 Macs, Technology

Network security can block updates, notifications, and more

Making your network more secure using software firewalls and SSL inspection can block macOS from functioning properly.

December 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

What to do when a secure connection fails

You go to connect to a website at an HTTPS address. When it can’t establish the secure connection you expect, your browser warns you. What do you do next?

February 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

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