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Good Friday

As a real adult Good Friday holds mature significance for me. The Christian faith rests on the fact of the crucifixion.

Christianity

What is wifiFirmwareLoader?

If you see wifiFirmwareLoader running on your Mac, here is what this Wi-Fi firmware process does.

Mac

What is SubmitDiagInfo?

If you see SubmitDiagInfo running on your Mac, here is what this diagnostic submission process does.

Mac

Privacy Roundup #0056 • March 2011

March 2011 was dominated by the RSA SecurID and Comodo certificate breaches, a wave of stolen email databases, and fresh fights over who may read your location and account records.

Privacy

De Cock en het dodelijk akkoord by A.C. Baantjer

De Cock helps a friend whose daughter is suspected of murder, but he is soon caught up in a dark plot himself.

Books

Monthly update #0251 • March 2011

Monthly update 251 • March 2011 • 2011-03-01 - 2011-03-31

Monthly Updates

Monthly update #0250 • February 2011

Monthly update 250 • February 2011 • 2011-02-01 - 2011-02-28

Monthly Updates

De Cock en de broeders van de zachte dood by A.C. Baantjer

A De Cock mystery that opens with a short piece by A.C. Baantjer on death in crime fiction.

Books

Privacy Roundup #0055 • February 2011

February 2011 was dominated by the Anonymous raid on HBGary, fresh proof of corporate surveillance plots, and a browser industry scrambling to define what Do Not Track should mean.

Privacy

Lie to Me

Lie to Me is an American crime drama series. It aired on Fox from 21 January 2009 to 31 January 2011. Samuel Baum created it. Tim Roth plays Dr Cal Lightman, an expert in reading facial expressions and body language to spot when people are lying.

TV Series

Useful macOS defaults: Terminal

Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.Terminal, controlling how Terminal looks and behaves.

Mac

What is fontmover?

If you see fontmover running on your Mac, here is what this font management process does.

Mac

What is sessionlogoutd?

If you see sessionlogoutd running on your Mac, here is what this logout process does.

Mac

What is netauth.sys.auth?

If you see netauth.sys.auth or netauth.sys.gui on your Mac, here is what these network authentication processes do.

Mac

Monthly update #0249 • January 2011

Monthly update 249 • January 2011 • 2011-01-01 - 2011-01-31

Monthly Updates

De Cock en de naakte juffer by A.C. Baantjer

A boy of about eight brings a death notice addressed to De Cock to the Warmoesstraat station, and the funeral is the start of a puzzling murder case.

Books

Privacy Roundup #0054 • January 2011

January 2011 was shaped by the WikiLeaks fallout, hacktivist attacks across the Arab Spring, and a steady drip of data breaches and tracking rows.

Privacy

eenbericht.nl

The concept of eenbericht.nl was very simple. You buy a token, every time a token is bought the price increased with 1 cent. With that token you could place a message on the website.

Projects

De Cock en de dansende dood by A.C. Baantjer

A De Cock mystery that opens with a short piece by A.C. Baantjer on death in crime fiction.

Books

Privacy Roundup #0053 • December 2010

WikiLeaks turned December into a fight over who controls your data, while breaches, tracking apps and new browser defences kept the pressure on everyone else.

Privacy

Monthly update #0248 • December 2010

Monthly update 248 • December 2010 • 2010-12-01 - 2010-12-31

Monthly Updates