What is going to change in notarization and code signing? Will sandboxing be required? How does this affect privacy controls?
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There’s a great more to come in Sonoma: two major changes in virtualisation, iCloud, privacy, accessibility and more.
Two metadata editors, and an app to improve your privacy by cleaning metadata and more. Updated for High Sierra and later.
Enabling CFNetwork diagnostic logging now requires SIP to be disabled in macOS 13.4.
What’s blocking you from saving that document: permissions, ACLs, privacy, an extended attribute, or what? Here are some clues.
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.
A revamped configuration profile to remove censored private data from log entries, and how to get network diagnostic data too.
Full details of 27 subsystems in macOS that TCC gave access to CloudKit despite there being no Apple ID or iCloud account.
Never work with children, animals or TCC. Its interface sprawls over two sections in System Settings, and its command tool can only wipe out its settings, forcing you to start from scratch.
There’s a lot standing between your app and what it can edit and save: POSIX permissions, ACLs, SIP, TCC, and maybe the sandbox too.
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