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Category: Information

MacOS 11 Big Sur and AuriStor AFS Client

Apple are expected to announce the availability of MacOS 11, Big Sur, shortly. Unfortunately this sees a change to kernel module loading that will stop the existing AuriStor AFS kernel modules loading and so AuriStor client version 0.198 (and earlier)  will no longer work. If you require AFS your your Mac, we don’t recommend upgrading […]

28 October 2020 0

Security of shared web services

As the likes of homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk and groups.inf.ed.ac.uk are shared user services, anyone using some sort of authentication/authorisation to restrict access, has to trust the other users of those web services. A lot of the web’s security model relies on the “same origin policy”. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-origin_policy which limits the access scripts have to data (particularly authentication […]

30 September 2020 0

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