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FileVault: Making your Mac more secure

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How to encrypt your hard disk without tears, using macOS FileVault. Includes addressing problems.

June 27, 2017 Macs, Technology

Bugs in the documentation of the log command, and in its handling of predicates

Several bugs and issues in the log command will not result in errors, but will misleadingly return no log entries when used in search predicates.

June 26, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 2.3 released to improve search predicate support

This new version works around multiple issues in the log show command, to make the use of search predicates much more reliable and consistent.

June 26, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Testing trust in system upgrades and updates

Did Apple secretly alpha-test file system conversion in the iOS 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2 updates – without informing users or letting them opt-out of testing?

June 25, 2017 Macs, Technology

LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons: Closing the vulnerability

OS X and macOS make it very easy for malware to make itself persistent. It’s time for High Sierra to improve protection of the user.

June 24, 2017 Macs, Technology

What is ‘copy on write’, and how is it good?

One of the major ‘new’ features in the new file system coming in High Sierra. But how does it help the Mac user?

June 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

How to discover which files should be readable and which writable: PermissionScanner 1.0b1

Repairing permissions on your Home folder is a blunt tool which could cause more problems. This tool looks through for potential problems, letting you fix them one file at a time.

June 19, 2017 Macs, Technology

Exploring Sierra 10.12.5 sleep and wake in the log, 2 DAS and CTS

Sleep interrupts the scheduling and dispatch of background tasks. Here’s how it looks in the dispatching systems.

June 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Silent Sierra night: security settings files in macOS Sierra (version 2)

In amongst the tens or hundreds of thousands of files which together make macOS Sierra work, there are […]

June 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Dystextia: a platform for exploring Unicode encoding problems, obfuscating text, and spoofing

Want to hide text from electronic searching and matching? Or just explore some of Unicode’s encoding issues? Here’s a useful tool.

June 13, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

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