Jeffrey Paul

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My 2024 Code Styleguide
10 Jun 2024 | original ↗

I have documented and published, for the first time, my personal code style guide. It is a living document (which is why it’s in git) that I will update periodically as I consciously notice more of my longstanding habits and techniques. I estimate it’s 70-80% complete (at least for Go) presently; the other languages included are just stuff that’s...

Apple OSes Are Insecure By Design To Aid Surveillance
11 Mar 2024 | original ↗

I have a theory that I believe is supported by enough evidence for you to believe it, as well.

Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent
15 Jan 2023 | original ↗

Preface: I don’t use iCloud. I don’t use an Apple ID. I don’t use the Mac App Store. I don’t store photos in the macOS “Photos” application, even locally. I never opted in to Apple network services of any kind - I use macOS software on Apple hardware.

Apple is Still Tracking You Without Consent
10 Apr 2022 | original ↗

In the current version of macOS, Monterey, on every system update on a system containing an M1 chip, such as all the new shiny/fast ARM (“Apple Silicon”) macs, the update process phones home to Apple to obtain a special boot signature, known in Apple jargon as a “ticket”.

Unstoppable Payments Are Coming.
14 Feb 2022 | original ↗

Unstoppable payments are coming. Society must integrate this inconvenient fact.

Signal Is Wrecking Your Images and Videos
26 Apr 2021 | original ↗

I’m a photographer. I care a lot about pixels and image quality and resolution. My main workstation has three 5120x2880 5k displays that run at 218ppi. I’m also someone who really likes music and audio engineering who has been known to DJ occasionally. I also come from a network and storage engineering background, so I’m not entirely ignorant of the considerations...

How Not To Run A Vulnerability Disclosure Program
24 Apr 2021 | original ↗

I found a small vulnerability in American Express today. Nothing major, but something they’ll definitely want to fix.

macOS 11.2 Network Privacy
3 Feb 2021 | original ↗

Yesterday on 1 Feb 2021, Apple released macOS 11.2 (Big Sur .2), which removes the ContentFilterExclusionList that prevented user content filtering applications from blocking Apple first-party apps from accessing the network. This misfeature, originally introduced on 12 November 2020 in macOS 11.0 (the only OS available on the new M1/ARM “Apple...

On Trusting Macintosh Hardware
4 Dec 2020 | original ↗

Modern Apple computers can no longer be fully used and maintained in 100% offline environments, or in ways that will reasonably ensure that the computer is free of state-ordered tampering.

Your Computer Isn’t Yours
24 Nov 2020 | original ↗

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