To switch between dialog options in OS X from the keyboard, use the TAB key.

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Dead simple:

If you follow Information Security at all or have been part of a PC vs. Mac discussion at any level, you’ve probably come across the timeless question of:

What’s more secure, Mac or PC?

Well, there’s an analogy from renowned security researcher Charlie Miller that elegantly captures the answer in a single sentence:

Mac OS X is like living in a farmhouse in the country with no locks, and Windows is living in a house with bars on the windows in the bad part of town.

In other words, less security with less exposure (OS X) vs. more security with more exposure (Windows).

In short, having a secure operating system and being safe are two different things. Exposure matters. So even though Windows is technically more resistant to attack, people using it are still less safe than if they were to use OS X. ::

diskutil is a very powerful utility within OS X that lets you do all sorts of things to the various storage media on your system. I use it to clear USB drives, since it’s really annoying to have to go into the .Trashes directory and kill the 501 contents (not to mention all the other artifacts, e.g. spotlight, cache, etc.)

So here’s a quick way to get everything off of a USB drive (or whatever kind of drive) using the OS X command line.

[bash]diskutil eraseVolume MS-DOS NEWNAME /Volumes/OLDNAME/[/bash]

To add more security, consider adding in one of the following options:

• zeroDisk (Erase a disk, writing zeros to the media)
• randomDisk (Erase a disk, writing random data to the media)
• secureErase (Securely erase a disk or freespace on a volume)

Reference

[ The diskutil Manual | developer.apple.com ]

So I somehow just found out that you can manipulate OS X’s clipboard via command line. The utility that does it is called pbcopy (and pbpaste).

[bash]echo “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet” | pbcopy[/bash]

Now, go into any OS X application and perform the paste (⌘-v) command and you’ll have the content you placed there via command line. Or you can use the related pbpaste to output your content.

[bash]pbpaste (to wherever)[/bash]

Related

[ pbcopy / pbpaste | Mac Developer Manual ]