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Dystextia: a platform for exploring Unicode encoding problems, obfuscating text, and spoofing

Want to hide text from electronic searching and matching? Or just explore some of Unicode’s encoding issues? Here’s a useful tool.

June 13, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Parental Controls: Safeguarding the vulnerable

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How to set a managed account up for a child, or another vulnerable user, using Parental Controls.

April 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Using hibernation to secure a Mac with FileVault

FileVault is most secure and robust when you shut your Mac down. But there are many times when you want full protection when only sleeping.

January 19, 2017 Macs, Technology

Controlling privacy in macOS Sierra

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How to get the best out of the Privacy tab in the Security & Privacy pane, and why Apple’s apps don’t bother to ask.

January 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Year on my Mac: For better or worse?

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Sierra, new MacBooks and MacBook Pros, APFS, Affinity Photo, malware, surveillance – 2016 was perhaps not as bad as it seemed.

January 1, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

What to do when your account might have been compromised

Massive breaches of personal data happen all too often. What should you do when they affect a website or service which you use?

December 19, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Can you trust Lynda.com or LinkedIn?

Do you use Lynda.com or LinkedIn? Have your personal data been breached? You might like to check, and reconsider your use of their services.

December 18, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: a tragedy to freedom in two Acts

How hard-won freedoms are being taken away by lies, stealth, and guile. A warning to other democracies.

December 4, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Living with the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act

Surely this Act was about terrorism and serious crime, wasn’t it? Why should I need to do anything different now it is law?

December 3, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Shazam: it keeps listening even when turned off

Do you have the app Shazam installed on any of your Macs? Patrick Wardle has just discovered that […]

November 14, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

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