Updated Startup Script for Disabling Unnecessary Services on a Mac

Hunting down more things to disable on a Mac

Teri Radichel
Cloud Security
Published in
6 min readSep 29, 2023

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I created a script to run at startup to disable unwanted services on a Mac here:

I was able to find some additional things to disable on a Mac to reduce unwanted network traffic so I spent some additional time digging around today. I’ll try to get back to my AWS posts after this for those who are waiting. Just had to figure this one out.

I added all the things I found to the start up script I wrote about earlier.

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Teri Radichel
Teri Radichel

Written by Teri Radichel

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