I will be speaking at the following venues in the near future: Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin, Germany (December 29, 2006) Macworld Conference & Expo, San Francisco, USA (January 11, 2007)

I usually find the security-related smugness of Mac users rather jarring. What’s often even more jarring is the reasoning behind such smugness. That said, I have to say that the recent furor regarding the so called OSX.Macarena “virus” amounts to, well, bullshit. If anti-virus companies are pretending to “recognize the threat” and therefore attempting to [...]

After I published Understanding Apple’s Binary Protection in Mac OS X, eWeek published a story on Apple’s binary encryption: Apple Places Encrypted Binaries in Mac OS X Although there’s nothing excessively misleading or incorrect in the story, to me, some parts of the story sounded like I had a conversation with eWeek. I did not. [...]

Read about how to enable trusted computing on Mac OS X. The document’s coverage includes: A discussion of the TPM hardware present in certain Macintosh computers Release of an open source TPM driver for Mac OS X Release of a Mac OS X port of an open source trusted computing software stack An overview of [...]

A discussion on how Apple’s binary protection works in the x86 version of Mac OS X: Understanding Apple’s Binary Protection in Mac OS X

A discussion on customizing kernel panic graphical dialogs and testing such customizations… A New Screen of Death for Mac OS X

I was told by my publisher that there was a long back-order queue for the book because they had sold out the first printing. It took a while to print the next lot. Strictly speaking, the next printing has been available for almost two weeks now, but the Addison-Wesley page for the book has just [...]

Something to look at: Mac OS X Internals Flyer

FYI: I will be holding a Mac OS X Internals workshop on Thursday, August 10th, 12:00 noon at the San Francisco Apple Store. This is a part of Apple’s “WWDC: Meet the Authors” line of Apple-store events. More details here (look for the August 10 calendar entry).

The very first chapter I wrote for Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach was the “history” chapter. My goal was to create a comprehensive and detailed book. I deemed it important for the reader to understand the long and eventful journey toward Mac OS X. Therefore, I wrote the chapter as a technical history [...]