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Code signing for the concerned: 3 Signing an app

How to perform ad hoc signing, signing with a personal certificate, and set signing up in Xcode.

January 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Code signing for the concerned: 2 Creating a personal certificate

How can you create your own personal certificate suitable for signing your apps? Uses Certificate Assistant, and free of cost.

January 16, 2019 Macs, Technology

Code signing for the concerned: 1 Why?

Should you use ad hoc signing, or make your own personal certificate? Why would you want to sign a script or app you have made?

January 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Four serious security errors which are easily made on a Mac: how to fix them

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Over the last year, I have come across many Macs which have been left with serious vulnerabilities. Here are four common ones, and how to put them right.

July 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

Code signing: confusing and weak?

How my apps were correctly signed, but using the wrong certificate. They passed all tests here, but would not come out of quarantine normally on other systems.

September 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

Making an Installer package the easier way

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Another epic journey, this time to make an Installer package for my Blowhole command tool.

March 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

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