Archive for Security
I spent quite a lot of yesterday fixing my automated backup system at work. Most important bit of this post: In recent versions of macOS, if you want a scheduled Bash shell script to write to your disk, you need to explicitly give Bash “Full Disk Access” permissions. Side note: In most contexts, using a […]
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, […]
Today is a Day of Remembrance: the 75th anniversary of FDR's executive order to incarcerate Japanese Americans. A bunch of...
A couple of months ago, I opened a business checking account, for a small press that I'm starting. I'm starting...
The Intercept recently published a long but interesting article about (among other things) CIA-connected researchers' attempts to subvert Xcode, the...
For the past three or four weeks, I've had a blizzard of technological failures. There was a period when my...
Back in 2007, a couple of companies called Quechup and Tagged (among others) did this thing where they asked you...
Three items that feel thematically related to me: I've been concerned for a decade or so about the possibility of...
NPR reported today on Immersion, a project from MIT that shows you a graphical view of your email connections to...
Some political and quasi-political items: Interesting discussion of tensions within the Tea Party as they settle in to become part...
Just called ETrade to check on some financial information. Their automatic phone answering system asked me to enter my web...
It seems to me that the prominence of hoax phone calls has been increasing lately, though maybe it's just a...