What’s the point of impressive Finder illusions when users can’t rely on your explanation of how to erase a disk? Apple’s problems of 2019 considered.
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What to do, when you can, before taking or sending your Mac in for service or repair. What about FileVault? And Activation Lock?
How does Catalina’s new privacy protection extend to folders such as ~/Documents? New information fills in detail.
Over a period of one minute 1636 of a total of 8638 log entries were censored with the mark ‘private’. Why can’t we disable this censorship?
What if you don’t want whole disk encryption? If your Mac doesn’t have T2, or if you’re using an external drive, encryption is still performed in software. Here’s a good solution.
How can you inspect log entries censored with in Catalina? Apparently you can’t any more.
Changes since Mojave are subtle. No new fields have been added to the log format, and code-level access is largely undocumented. Console remains at version 1.1.
What to expect from the many changes to security and privacy in the first release of Catalina. How to run non-notarized apps, and more.
Apple’s recent change in requirements for notarization also affects privacy protection in both Mojave and Catalina.
We see plenty of dialogs seeking consent and informing us about privacy protection. But macOS security seems driven by obscurity and secrecy. Why?
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