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What has Accessibility got to do with me?

What is the Accessibility list for in the Privacy tab of Security & Privacy? If you don’t use any Accessibility features, does it do anything?

March 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Deceived by the Finder

Where does Apple warn the user that four stray files in an unprotected folder are specially protected by the Sandbox kernel extension?

March 8, 2020 Macs, Technology

How macOS 10.14 and later overrides write permission on some files

Additional to the protected folders listed in the Privacy pane, macOS has a secret list of files which are also read-only. Apple hasn’t documented these.

March 4, 2020 Macs, Technology

A Guide to Catalina’s Privacy Protection: 5 Location

Unique because Location Services isn’t managed by TCC, but by its own locationd service, and is invariably shared in iCloud.

March 3, 2020 Macs, Technology

Scrub version 1.1 shouldn’t crash on Catalina

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Fixes a bug which could cause the app to crash when starting to run an audit.

February 24, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Why privileged commands may never be allowed

Running an AppleScript which tries to run a shell command with root privileges can fail. Here’s why, and what we can’t do about it.

February 15, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Is Catalina a good upgrade yet?

Although 10.15.3 fixes a serious bug in Mail and Catalina is steadily maturing, there are many users who still shouldn’t upgrade.

February 2, 2020 Macs, Technology

Quarantine, SIP, and MACL: macOS per-file security controls

The behaviour of quarantine flags, SIP flags, and the mysterious new com.apple.macl attribute, which never ceases to puzzle.

January 30, 2020 Macs, Technology

A Guide to Catalina’s Privacy Protection: 4 tccutil

Despite the lack of documentation from Apple, here’s a full rundown on the only tool provided to control privacy settings.

January 28, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Things don’t always ‘just work’

Where are the tools for diagnosing and fixing features that don’t always ‘just work’? Turning to look at iCloud.

January 19, 2020 Macs, Technology

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