Starting sometime mid-year in 2011, I began having more ‘stuff’ to do than even my eidetic memory could help with. It’s not that I forgot things, per se, but the ability to mentally recall and prioritize work, family, personal and other tasks finally required some external assistance and I resolved to find a GTD system… Continue reading
Posts Tagged → Mac OS X
Three Resolutions For Mac OS X Users
In 2011, we saw a large increase in web site exploits that exposed private user data as well as a breakdown in the trust of SSL (for various reasons) and the introduction of real malware on to the OS X scene. If there were just three things I could ask Mac users to do in… Continue reading
Dropbox 1.2.0 Experimental Build “Fixes” Security Issue
If you are concerned about the Dropbox design flaw exposed by the dbClone attack, then have we got a link for you! The intrepid DB devs have tossed up a forum release which purports to fix all the thorny security issues. You can no longer just copy a config file to a separate machine to… Continue reading
A Fully Operational OS X dbClone
Spent some time today updating the missing bits of the OS X version of the Dropbox cloner I uploaded last night. You can just grab the executable or grab the whole project from the github repository. The app can now backup/restore of local config, clone dropbox configs to a URL/file and also impersonate a captured… Continue reading
“Flatten” HTML Content (i.e strip tags) in Cocoa/Objective-C [UPDATED] [BUG-FIX]
One of my most popular blog posts — 24,000 reads — in the old, co-mingled site was a short snippet on how to strip HTML tags from a block of content in Objective-C. It’s been used by many-an-iOS developer (which was the original intent). An intrepid reader & user (“Brian” – no other attribution available)… Continue reading
“Repairing” Strict Transport Security in Chrome on OS X
One of my subdomains is for mail and I was using an easy DNS hack to point it to my hosted Gmail setup (just create a CNAME pointing to ghs.google.com). This stopped working for some folks this week and I’ve had no time to debug exactly why so I decided to go back to a… Continue reading
Remote Assistance/Information Gathering Aid – SupportDetails
I’m putting together a computer & online safety presentation for an upcoming talk at a senior center in Portsmouth (NH) and came across Support Details in my information hunting trek. This site makes it dirt simple to get basic information from whomever you are providing remote support to (a task I’m sure many of us… Continue reading
Quick Hits :: 2011-02-08
Security Originally meant to improve the security of jailbroken iOS devices, antid0te is now also available for OS X Snow Leopard thanks to the efforts of Stefan Esser. Since Apple engineers did not see fit to load the dynamic linker – dyld – at a random base address, they left a fairly significant hole that… Continue reading