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What happens when you open a quarantined app?

Stepping through the key stages of opening an app in High Sierra. First, a ‘regular’ open, then with the quarantine flag, showing Gatekeeper checks and translocation.

August 3, 2018 Macs, Technology

32-bitCheck is now notarized too

A notarized version, which should benefit all users, and pass Mojave’s Gatekeeper checks in full.

August 2, 2018 Macs, Technology

Disks, partitions, volumes, containers

I’ve got two volumes showing in the Finder. So how come diskutil list tells me I’ve got four disks with a total of 12 partitions?

August 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

One small change which might break a lot of older apps

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While we’re worrying about 32-bit apps, something else is changing which is likely to stop many more apps from working properly. In the near future.

July 31, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 149, […]

July 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

xattred 1.0b8 can now compare the xattrs of two files

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This new version adds a simple tool to discover any differences in extended attributes between two files.

July 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

How to check that a file really is a faithful copy

Comparing the data in two files is easy, but what about its extended attributes? There hasn’t been a simple tool to do that, until now.

July 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

LockRattler 4.7.1 checks log privacy and reports Mojave releases

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Recommended for Sierra, High Sierra, and particularly Mojave users, this adds a new feature to check whether log privacy is enabled, and gives Mojave version numbers.

July 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

Better natural language processing in Mojave

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Parsing multiple languages in the same text, discovering which parse types are supported in a language, and finding ‘roots’ of words.

July 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

Four serious security errors which are easily made on a Mac: how to fix them

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Over the last year, I have come across many Macs which have been left with serious vulnerabilities. Here are four common ones, and how to put them right.

July 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

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