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How to set up a new Mac mini with Tahoe 26.1 for the best possible privacy.

What settings should I turn off, what do you recommend for the vest privacy on a mac M4 ?

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 1 day ago

Don't link or setup an icloud account.

Have a admin account, never use it

Run everything from a unprivileged account

Use virtual machines such as UTM to segment your different workloads.