Standard layout and content template for xattr type pages here.
Sierra
With completely new code, a new interface, optional authentication, even a new Help book and icon, LockRattler 4 should be more robust and useful.
Marks a folder or file as being protected by SIP. Widespread among kernel extensions, and Apple’s bundled apps.
This UTF-8 string contains the Gatekeeper score, the system time of download, downloading agent, and the event UUID. Can force a full Gatekeeper check.
Indicates the encoding used for the contents of the text file, e.g. UTF-8, Macintosh, Windows-1252. Used in many text documents.
They may not cause many problems, but xattrs are both very useful and extensively used by macOS and third-party products. It’s time to discover more, and document them.
For the moment, until Apple pushes a future update to bring it to version 1.28 at least, your […]
Comments to articles here show that some Mac users have, in the last day or so, received silent […]
Gatekeeper’s data files are updated to version 134, and MRT may also be undergoing update too.
They’re almost invisible, but surprisingly widely used. xattrs come in very many different types, and contain valuable information. Here are results from analysing most of a Sierra startup volume.
The Eclectic Light Company 