Despite the lack of documentation from Apple, here’s a full rundown on the only tool provided to control privacy settings.
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App translocation, signature checks, XProtect and more explained, with key messages from the log to help you diagnose problems.
Using Little Snitch, this becomes unresolvable, as the app can’t complete first run checks, and every time you try, it’s translocated to a different folder, causing Little Snitch to block it again.
Apple has pushed two updates today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
How does Catalina protect privacy of locations such as ~/Documents and removable volumes? What are your controls?
Inside the Privacy tab in the Security & Privacy pane, and some pitfalls which could leave your private data exposed.
Now that Sierra is unsupported, this update no longer marks its older firmware versions as being errors.
How can you put four files with apparently identical names in the same folder? Here’s the secret, and the magic of Unicode.
Confused by Catalina’s privacy protection? Here are the principles behind it, and the categories and structure of protected services and locations.
Over the last month or two, Apple has at last been improving its user documentation. Although these online […]
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