With GrapheneOS installed, I am motivated to lock down the Mac a bit further. I dusted off my privacy geek hat and put it on last night, and did two things:
- Installed little snitch
- updated and tried to fix1 my Linux VM on Windows
There are technical challenges, but I find that the biggest hurdle is convenience. For example, I could disable Spotlight on the terminal level and block it from communicating with Apple servers (I see this is possible, at least to a point), but do I really want to stop using Spotlight?
The same issue exists with LibreWolf, my go-to privacy browser. Every session I start is a clean slate, but do I really want to deal with typing my credentials and having my settings reset for frequent websites each time?
If my Mac is my main productivity machine, perhaps I can utilize a Linux VM for privacy. It’s geared better toward privacy anyway. But what do I use where? What should be private, and what doesn’t need to be?
