After an unfortunate incident three years ago, RSRs were put on pause. Now they’ve been rebadged as BSIs, what is wrong with their current implementation? The list is long.
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What is a BSI? Is it the same as an RSR? How does it patch vulnerabilities, and how is it installed and activated? What problems does it have, and what are its limitations?
Apple has just released its first public Background Security Improvement (BSI) for macOS 26.3.1 Tahoe, labelled as BSI […]
Two big disappointments: the new Liquid Glass control does nothing to address the problems, and Background Security Improvements haven’t learned from mistakes with RSRs.
If you have updated your Mac to Tahoe 26.1, you may be blissfully unaware that it will now […]
A mystery volume mounts from nowhere, and its name starts with Creedence. This is a cryptex, also favoured in Apple’s Private Cloud Compute. Is it a ghost of the past, or harbinger of the future?
From Installer packages and metapackages, to the first for Big Sur with its new boot volume group. RSRs and their demise, and when an upgrade is an update.
From the start of the fourth cycle in M4 Macs and the smallest ever, through the omission in macOS VMs, and QuickLook shortcomings, to the stealth firmware update.
Safari and its supporting frameworks and components, used to be installed in the Data volume, but now come in cryptexes. These also account for the larger macOS updates for Apple silicon.
How large were Sonoma’s updates? How many were unscheduled patches? Why were there no RSRs? What does Sequoia hold in store?
The Eclectic Light Company 