Archive for Security
System Integrity Protection, DataVaults, and entitlements
While investigating my Mac issues over the past couple weeks, I keep running into directories that I mysteriously can’t access, even using sudo. Tonight I found out why. Apple has implemented something called SIP, System Integrity Protection, which restricts access to various things. And it turns out that in the latest version of macOS, Mojave, […]
Day of Remembrance for the incarceration of Japanese Americans
Today is a Day of Remembrance: the 75th anniversary of FDR's executive order to incarcerate Japanese Americans. A bunch of...
Check fraud
A couple of months ago, I opened a business checking account, for a small press that I'm starting. I'm starting...
Attacking the compiler: Xcode and “Trusting Trust”
The Intercept recently published a long but interesting article about (among other things) CIA-connected researchers' attempts to subvert Xcode, the...
When the Internet of Things fails
For the past three or four weeks, I've had a blizzard of technological failures. There was a period when my...
Beware Grovo, Badoo, and other services that want access to your email
Back in 2007, a couple of companies called Quechup and Tagged (among others) did this thing where they asked you...
The scariest threats are the invisible ones
Three items that feel thematically related to me: I've been concerned for a decade or so about the possibility of...
Giving MIT access to your email
NPR reported today on Immersion, a project from MIT that shows you a graphical view of your email connections to...
Links: political
Some political and quasi-political items: Interesting discussion of tensions within the Tea Party as they settle in to become part...
Adventures in phone-tree security
Just called ETrade to check on some financial information. Their automatic phone answering system asked me to enter my web...
Three hoax phone calls
It seems to me that the prominence of hoax phone calls has been increasing lately, though maybe it's just a...