MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 18: Hardware Hacking in the New Era YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Adam Codega, IT Operations Leader at Upserve [@adamcodega]
• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
• Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]

GUEST HOSTS:

• Erik Gomez, Client Platform Engineer at Pinterest[@contains_eng]

LISTEN! SYNOPSIS

Erik Gomez joins the gang to talk about testing the new Touch Bar MacBook Pro, finding new preference settings, and the state of the Mac as a whole.

LINKS & NOTES

Activation for TouchBar Macs, Part One
Activation for TouchBar Macs, Part Two
Preferences for the TouchBar

This Week in Frogorland: Using python to determine the status of SIP on the Mac, without using csrutil and nvram.

How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists – Mark Gurman for Bloomberg

Cables, Adapters, Devices for the Brave New Mac World

Tools Erik mentioned:
* strings (from cli tools)
* fs_usage
* ripgrep
* Apple Debug profiles and YUCKY UNIX scripts
* Hopper

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