Monthly Archives: December 2017

macOS Adaptive Firewall

After that last post on enabling SSH back to my iMac, I realized I should do a little more research into security precautions. I stumbled onto information about the macOS Server Adaptive Firewall.

Enabling it couldn’t be much easier. It’s two commands; first to self-configure, and then to start the firewall:

sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/afctl -c
sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/afctl -f

kyrpted.com has a more thorough explanation of how to use the Adaptive Firewall, but I feel a little better knowing it’s running.

Hello, I Am the Mythical Middle-Class Person Who Republicans Say Will Benefit from Their New Tax Bill - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency:

Well, as a middle-class person who loves this tax plan, I am here to tell you that I exist, I am real, and I am as excited as a Clydesdale in the springtime to see our country’s long-suffering corporations pay lower taxes.