Newsletter #6 Launch Agents that provide XPC services Oct 25 2019

Hi,

How was your week? I hope it was a good one. It was a busy week for me. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to publish an article this week. But I made it.

I enjoy writing these articles. I wish I had more time to dedicate to research and writing, but I’m happy that I can dedicate at least a small amount of time every week.

Anyways, it’s the weekend, so it’s time to relax. I’m a fan of AudioBooks and podcasts. So on Saturdays, I take some time to get a coffee and listen to an interesting story. If you are a fan of audio content, here is one of my favourite podcasts:

Newsletter #5 - XPC Services on macOS apps using Swift Oct 18 2019

Hello,

The weekend is here, so before we go get some rest here is this week’s newsletter.

Did you see that Ken Thompson’s BSD Password was finally cracked? If you don’t know who he is, he was one of the creators of the UNIX operating system. Someone found an old(39 years old) /etc/passwd file containing some users and password from the source tree of BSD version 3. And they finally cracked the last password. The article is a fun read. I think you might enjoy it.