2020
Another macOS bug in Image Capture
22/04/20 16:40
Another macOS bug in Image Capture and others
Note: This post has been rewritten and updated with new information on May 5, 2020.
How Apple is filling your hard drive with empty data.
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Note: This post has been rewritten and updated with new information on May 5, 2020.
How Apple is filling your hard drive with empty data.
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Apples Notarizing Hell
22/02/20 14:14
The Gates to Hell: Apples Notarizing
At WWDC 2018, Apple introduced a new "security" feature to macOS called Notarizing.
This announcement did concern and puzzle me a lot. Didn't we already have the super safe and amazing "codesigning", which was stuffed down our throats with Mac OS X 10.7? This codesigning was supposed to prevent dangerous code of unknown origin from being executed on your Mac.
But the introduction of codesigning by Apple was a total fiasco, riddled with bugs, failing developer tools, missing integrations, no documentation at all, and many other problems, and it took Apple four full years to get it to work more often than not.
And yes, that process was called codesigning hell, and for good reasons.
And now Notarizing.
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At WWDC 2018, Apple introduced a new "security" feature to macOS called Notarizing.
This announcement did concern and puzzle me a lot. Didn't we already have the super safe and amazing "codesigning", which was stuffed down our throats with Mac OS X 10.7? This codesigning was supposed to prevent dangerous code of unknown origin from being executed on your Mac.
But the introduction of codesigning by Apple was a total fiasco, riddled with bugs, failing developer tools, missing integrations, no documentation at all, and many other problems, and it took Apple four full years to get it to work more often than not.
And yes, that process was called codesigning hell, and for good reasons.
And now Notarizing.
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