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Last Week on My Mac: App Store Eavesdroppers

The Mac App Store has been selling (or giving) us spyware. How can Apple ever live this down?

September 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Security, privacy, and why XProtect won’t stop apps reading your email

The differences between security and privacy, why we need effective controls over both, and how those controls are different.

September 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

Privacy + Scripting = Problems

Control of one app by another is an important but difficult aspect of Mojave’s new privacy controls. Here’s how it handles that at present, and some of the issues it raises.

September 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Working with Mojave’s Privacy Protection

For many users, privacy controls in Mojave will pass almost unnoticed. Here are tips for those who have greater demands, and want their apps to access protected data.

September 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed its weekly update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 154, […]

September 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

LockRattler 4.10 is a recommended update for all users

Brings a new feature, to check whether a firmware password is set. For Mojave, adds online check of current versions, and help with privacy protection.

August 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s privacy protection: informing users

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Proposes and provides a simple graphical summary of privacy capabilities for apps in Mojave. Also shows how to add them in a Help window.

August 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has released a second Supplemental Update for the MacBook Pro 2018 with Touch Bar

Apple has just released macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update 2 for MacBook Pro (2018) models with T2 […]

August 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s privacy protection, command tools, and scripts

How can third-party command tools access files under Mojave’s new privacy protection? Isn’t this going to be a nightmare?

August 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed its weekly update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 153, […]

August 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

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