All Macs have multiple file-based keychains, and one Data Protection keychain for each user. Their differences are explained, with info on the newest variant introduced this year, together with tools and links.
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Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5366, for all Macs. […]
Full Disk Access gives apps and services access to all our most sensitive secrets. Should you grant that to AI agents such as those of Meta’s Muse app?
Changes to keychains, volume structure, Time Machine, Migration Assistant, and the security command tool that have only recently come to light, six months later.
Tahoe 26.4 broke the copying of login keychains. Apple has at last explained how you can copy them successfully, and what backup software needs to do. Explained in full.
In hardware encryption, keys are kept in the Secure Enclave. Software encryption in APFS has no such luxury, just keybags at container and volume level. This explains when they’re created.
Apple has released yet another update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5363, for all Macs. As usual […]
Apple has overnight released last week’s update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5362, for all Macs. As […]
Details including XProtect, XProtect Remediator, Bastion, Kext Exclude List, Incompatible Apps, MRT, GK Opaque and the mystery GKE that is installed then vanishes.
Seven burning problems, from encrypted login keychains to problems updating XProtect, have turned the last week into a plate-spinner’s nightmare..
