Mastodawn

Howard Oakley’s SilentKnight 3 utility has an update to the initial beta that has text export of the findings and JSON support. Future initial releases will get List Updates and Install Updates running in the background.
#EclecticLight #malware

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/06/18/silentknight-3-second-beta-adds-text-and-json-reporting/

SilentKnight 3 second beta adds text and JSON reporting

Adds reporting to both text and JSON files, runs from standard user accounts, and fixes several other issues. For Apple silicon Macs only, macOS 15.6 and later.

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Hacker News Dec 2, 2025

Losing Confidence

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/30/last-week-on-my-mac-losing-confidence/

#HackerNews #LosingConfidence #LosingConfidenceInTech #TechTrends #MacUsers #EclecticLight

Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence

What was the key to successfully learning to drive, ride a bike, or speak a foreign language? Confidence, and it’s every bit as important in computing, and in macOS.

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1P1sces 🇪🇺Nov 29, 2024

@danfairs

Incidentally, #EclecticLight had a series of articles on #Spotlight, cf.

https://eclecticlight.co/2024/11/29/

November 29, 2024 – The Eclectic Light Company

2 posts published by hoakley on November 29, 2024

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Brian Pierce Jan 20, 2024

Clever trick to obfuscate text with similar appearing #unicode characters so only humans, no #llm #ai can read it.

I suppose this could be easily circumvented with some code if it were common enough to bother.

#eclecticlight #macos
https://eclecticlight.co/2024/01/20/the-revenge-of-unicode/

The revenge of Unicode

Text can be searched by eavesdroppers and crawlers to discover its content and extract it for other purposes. How to make their task more difficult using Unicode.

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