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Explainer: the app sandbox

Why is it, what is it, and how can you tell whether an app runs in it? What can you do to remove an app’s entitlements?

June 24, 2023 Macs, Technology

What to do when Spotlight can’t find it

Immediate actions to get the best result from your search, and how to tackle even the most deep-seated of Spotlight problems.

June 22, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Lies, notarization and privacy

What is going to change in notarization and code signing? Will sandboxing be required? How does this affect privacy controls?

June 18, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Sonoma under the hood

There’s a great more to come in Sonoma: two major changes in virtualisation, iCloud, privacy, accessibility and more.

June 11, 2023 Macs, Technology

More app updates: SearchKey and SearchKeyLite 1.5, and Scrub 1.3

Two metadata editors, and an app to improve your privacy by cleaning metadata and more. Updated for High Sierra and later.

June 8, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Ventura 13.4 makes network diagnostic logging harder

Enabling CFNetwork diagnostic logging now requires SIP to be disabled in macOS 13.4.

May 23, 2023 Macs, Technology

Tackling problems with permissions, ACLs and other access controls

What’s blocking you from saving that document: permissions, ACLs, privacy, an extended attribute, or what? Here are some clues.

April 11, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Why is Apple so reluctant for the offline Mac?

In the two years since we’ve been waiting for Apple to provide an option to opt out of online certificate and notarization checks, Apple has added two enhanced security modes, but not addressed the original issue.

March 12, 2023 Macs, Technology

Removing privacy censorship from the log

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A revamped configuration profile to remove censored private data from log entries, and how to get network diagnostic data too.

March 8, 2023 Macs, Technology

What are Ventura’s system privacy settings?

Full details of 27 subsystems in macOS that TCC gave access to CloudKit despite there being no Apple ID or iCloud account.

February 14, 2023 Macs, Technology

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