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The Price of Free Software: Trend Micro’s apps exfiltrate your browser history

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Surely you don’t mean the Trend Micro? The cybersecurity experts? No – it must be a fake site. But is it?

September 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: App Store Eavesdroppers

The Mac App Store has been selling (or giving) us spyware. How can Apple ever live this down?

September 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Security, privacy, and why XProtect won’t stop apps reading your email

The differences between security and privacy, why we need effective controls over both, and how those controls are different.

September 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

Privacy + Scripting = Problems

Control of one app by another is an important but difficult aspect of Mojave’s new privacy controls. Here’s how it handles that at present, and some of the issues it raises.

September 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Working with Mojave’s Privacy Protection

For many users, privacy controls in Mojave will pass almost unnoticed. Here are tips for those who have greater demands, and want their apps to access protected data.

September 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

What can that app do? Entitlements, authorisation, and privacy

To pre-empt privacy problems in Mojave, you need to know information which is currently not easily obtained. Here’s an app to do it for you.

September 3, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Growing the Apple crop

Mojave’s new privacy controls continue to cause problems with AppleEvents, and have a remaining bug to be fixed. Why have they been discovered so late, though?

September 2, 2018 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s privacy protection: informing users

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Proposes and provides a simple graphical summary of privacy capabilities for apps in Mojave. Also shows how to add them in a Help window.

August 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s privacy protection, command tools, and scripts

How can third-party command tools access files under Mojave’s new privacy protection? Isn’t this going to be a nightmare?

August 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s privacy protection is complex and will crash innocent apps

Giving an app Full Disk Access doesn’t. The only way to give an app access to some protected data is by trying to access that data, but when macOS crashes that app, the user is stuffed.

August 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

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