Mac OS X's 'QuarantineEvents' keeps a log of all your downloads

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Mac OS X users are familiar with warnings like the one shown here. Apple's "quarantine" has been in place for awhile, and it offers some minimal protection against accidentally opening files which have been downloaded from the Internet. What most Mac…

14 February 2012

Google Public DNS: 70 billion requests a day and counting

The Official Google Blog

Hey—we've moved. Visit The Keyword for all the latest news and stories from Google Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture We launched Google Public DNS in December 2009 to help make the web faster for everyone.…

14 February 2012

A very handy 1Password tip

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

I can't vouch for everyone out there, but at least amongst the blogging tribe here at TUAW, 1Password (from Agile Bits) is an indispensable piece of utility software. Now former TUAW blogger and current Evernote expert Brett Kelly has documented a cool…

14 February 2012

10.7:Quartz Debug 4.2 hidden prefs

MacOSXHints.com

Apple has changed the 'magic open sesame' to all the cool hidden features of Quartz Debug in version 4.2. Why make such a useful app and then hide almost every feature? I just can't understand the logic in this. Anyway as an update of my old hint here…

13 February 2012

Kees Cook: kvm and product_uuid

Planet Debian

While looking for something to use as a system-unique fall-back when a TPM is not available, I looked at /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_uuid (same as dmidecode‘s “System Information / UUID”), but was disappointed when, under KVM, the file was missing…

10 February 2012

Using JSON for Private Data

Planet Mozilla

Sometimes we’re asked for guidance on something and the result seems worth sharing; this one is about useful things to consider when using JSON for information that needs to stay secret. If you’re using JSON for private data; make sure you’ve fixed the…

10 February 2012