When Disk Utility wrote encryption passwords to the log in plain text, where a StarCraft battlecruiser was made operational, 3 huzzahs for a single click, and more vagaries of ten years of the Unified log.
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Coming next week in macOS 27.2: the ability to add or remove apps from Local Network privacy. Also global exceptions explained.
Permissions and granting access by privacy controls are completely different. This explains how Full Disk Access and other privacy settings can’t override Unix permissions, and why they must be distinguished.
Full Disk Access gives apps and services access to all our most sensitive secrets. Should you grant that to AI agents such as those of Meta’s Muse app?
Frustrated trying to read Apple Intelligence Reports? Try this new app that extracts their useful contents, converts dates, and lays them out to make them accessible and understandable.
How your Siri AI requests remain private even when processed off-device, by PCC. How a simple request becomes a long and elaborate prompt.
Take one Golden Gate VM, tweak its security settings, restart, agree to a long stream of licences, then devise a command to parse and export an attestation bundle and what do you get?
There are 3 sources of records of AI transactions, of which Apple Intelligence Reports are the most important and detailed. But can the user read their contents?
Double-clicking a document to open it in its editor is quintessentially Mac, yet for the last nearly 7 years it could result in a bizarre dialog and refusal. Does any of this make sense?
Does Lockdown Mode stop writing location metadata to all new images captured by the camera, or does it merely remove it from those photos that are shared?
