June 2022

Apple operating systems explicitly do not support CPU pinning in a shipping configuration. This is unlike almost every other shipping OS, so do not even… Read More »CPU Pinning on macOS

Note: most of this post applies to iOS 16 too. Since macOS Ventura, Rapid Security Response is supported. This allows for lightweight updates that do… Read More »Quick look at macOS Rapid Security Response

Let’s start by plugging in a USB stick (using the FAT, ExFAT or NTFS file systems) on macOS Ventura… and see what happens. The NTFS… Read More »Quick look at user-mode file systems on macOS Ventura

Quick look at Rosetta on Linux.

Windows supports encryption of the boot drive with two separate features, BitLocker and Device Encryption. The two features Device Encryption This feature is available on… Read More »Boot drive encryption security on Windows