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Solving problems with Mojave’s privacy protection

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Apple has intentionally made it very hard to troubleshoot problems with privacy protection. Here’s a new feature to help, in a new version of Taccy.

February 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Code signing for the concerned: 5 Signing and privacy control

One important requirement for code signatures is with Mojave’s new privacy controls. Are they needed, though?

January 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

Cleaning up sensitive files: How to sanitise storage

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Can you trust Disk Utility to securely erase hard drives and SSDs? How to prepare your Mac’s internal storage before selling it, so you don’t give your bank details away with it. And much more.

December 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Prepare your Mac for service/repair, and restore it later

Don’t just throw it in a box and send it off: what happens if its internal storage is replaced or wiped? What about protecting sensitive files? Does a T2 chip make this difficult?

December 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

Scrub bug fixed, and notarized for Mojave

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Scrub can now clean individual files properly, stripping extended attributes, saved versions, resetting their creation date, and more.

December 3, 2018 Macs, Technology

What does the TCC Compatibility database do?

Updated late last week, Apple has provided no information about this. What’s more, installing the update may be insufficient to apply it.

November 20, 2018 Macs, Technology

Bailiff (iCloud), Taccy (privacy access) and UTIutility (UTIs) are notarized

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Each now built with the latest version of Xcode, and notarized for your added security. Recommended for Mojave users in particular.

November 16, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Mojave’s TCC privacy protection data

Changes address issues with Kensington and Blizzard software.

November 16, 2018 Macs, Technology

Who put that in my Full Disk Access list? ssh and Mojave’s privacy protection

How ssh is by default given full access to private data, and how removing it from the Privacy pane only enables that access.

November 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: ssh it

This article is being replaced with a completely fresh one which should be far more accurate.

November 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

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