Patrick Wardle (tweet): Since TCC is designed to protect these resources, it poses a challenge for malware that often tries to access them. Generally malware takes one of two approaches: exploiting TCC bugs, or obtaining explicit user permission access to the TCC protected item. The former is rather uncommon, while the latter is much more […]

Jeff Johnson: ChangeTheHeaders is a Safari extension for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS that allows you to customize HTTP request headers such as Accept, Accept-Language, Cookie, and User-Agent. ChangeTheHeaders is available now in the App Store. […]You might ask, why didn’t I just add this feature to StopTheMadness Pro? On macOS, StopTheMadness Pro is a […]

Howard Oakley: LaunchServices compiles a large registry database of apps and their associations with and capabilities for handling different document types. Its records determine which app opens a document when you double-click on its icon in the Finder, and most prominently which are listed when you open the Open With… item in the Finder’s contextual […]

Timothy R. Butler (Hacker News, Slashdot): The latest releases — MacOS Sequoia and iOS/iPadOS 18 — are screaming for such a reset. Yes, they work and are still smoother and less glitchy than Windows 11, but they feel like software developed by people who don’t actually use that software. In the 22 years since I […]

Dave Nanian (Mastodon): Since a given APFS container can hold multiple copies of the OS, Preboot and Recovery have folder structures that include UUIDs corresponding to the volume that “owns” that part of their shared volumes in the group. Inside that UUID-named folder are the files that “pair” with the system you’re trying to boot.In […]