Matthew Elvey

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My security breach blog is Caring About Security.

	75 reputation	bio	website	matthew.elvey.com	visits	member for	7 months
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Apr 4	comment	How can root launch a regular Mac application from a cron job in /etc/crontab? You say 'UNIX-style solution' like it's a bad thing. IMO it's much easier to suspend these launches and resume them on demand by commenting and uncommenting the relevant line. I thought stackexchange wasn't the place for religious wars!
Apr 3	comment	OS X breaks if I apply HFS compression to the whole volume. What do I need to exclude? Thanks. I'm not familiar with /usr/standalone, which includes /usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi but I would guess it shouldn't be compressed either.
Apr 3	revised	How can root launch a regular Mac application from a cron job in /etc/crontab? fixed grammar, improved formatting
Apr 3	comment	How to fix DNS resolving issues on Mountain Lion after waking from sleep? Good ways to troubleshoot this: on your FreeBSD router, - turn on DNS logging and review the logs using 'tail' and/or - run tcpdump e.g. sudo tcpdump -vv -i en1 port 53
Apr 3	asked	OS X breaks if I apply HFS compression to the whole volume. What do I need to exclude?
Apr 3	comment	Viber messenger not working on my Ad hoc wireless network When you look at the iPhone's IP settings, what do you see? (click the arrow next to the network name in Settings..Wi-Fi) A screen shot would be ideal.
Apr 3	comment	How can I reset the answers of the security questions of my Apple ID? Jeff's answer is wrong. This one is right (I just added a missing step that may have tripped up Creator. I get the "Forgot your answers? Send reset security info email to..." message. (Or perhaps Jeff was treated differently because he was using a browser/from an IP he hadn't used with his Apple ID before.)
Apr 3	revised	How can I reset the answers of the security questions of my Apple ID? Added a missing step.
Apr 3	suggested	suggested edit on How can I reset the answers of the security questions of my Apple ID?
Mar 23	awarded	Student
Mar 23	revised	How to protect my Mac from reseting the admin password Cleaned up grammar and added some info to the end; rm redundant link. Hope I'm not being to bold; this is my first edit to another person's answer.
Mar 23	answered	Time Capsule doesn't show all time machine backups
Mar 23	suggested	suggested edit on How to protect my Mac from reseting the admin password
Mar 23	asked	How can root launch a regular Mac application from a cron job in /etc/crontab?
Mar 23	answered	How can root launch a regular Mac application from a cron job in /etc/crontab?
Mar 21	revised	How to extend bootcamp partition? Incorporate my comment.
Mar 21	revised	How secure is Mac OS X's security? If past performance is any indication of future success, it's likely that new flaws in FileVault will be found.
Mar 14	comment	How secure is Mac OS X's security? @D.W.: Re. "best practices": When answering, I started writing specifics, but decided it's probably best to simply say best practices, not re-answer. Others have done a good job already - with audit standards like ISO27001. gog.is/mac+os+x+security+best+practices shows the NSA's goo.gl/ineX4, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a separate Q&A or or even series of questions, perhaps at <security.stack...> where you are so busy. There's so much - e.g. what I cover at elvey.com/insecure , no one else is covering!
Mar 14	comment	How secure is Mac OS X's security? Thanks for the feedback. It looks like I tweaked my answer to make it clearer. Any further suggestions? Doh! I just realized that it was you who improved my answer. Yay. Still getting the hang of things on Stack sites, and/or they're changing. ('About' says I can't edit posts but I can - but my edits are moderated; you can edit my answer, but have <<2000 points...) Anyway, I guess the right thing to do now is to delete most of our comments, above? Interesting editing here...like Wikipedia, but not too much! :-) As for (not) being upset, NVC is helping me be better at that!
Mar 14	awarded	Informed