Your Mac is no longer just a computer. It's the control panel for your entire digital life.
Over the past year you've been granting access to it. AI tools, browser extensions, agents, connected accounts, commands you pasted without fully reading.
Not because you were careless — because that is how everyone is now told to work. Your Mac already has Gatekeeper and XProtect, and they matter. But nothing protects someone who overrides a warning, runs a command, or approves a permission they were never given the vocabulary to evaluate.
HardenMac is the layer between “an AI tool told me to do this” and “I did it without understanding what access I just granted.”
The site is being rebuilt. The full Protocol is finished and the front door is being rewritten around the idea above. Back shortly.
Free, available now — no email, nothing to install
- First-Response ChecklistSomething may have just happened. The first moves, in a safer order.
- First-Response Self-CheckNot sure whether that click or install was a problem? Work through it calmly.
- Mac Exposure CheckA short interactive check. Nothing leaves your browser tab.
- Free Mac Exposure MapMap what your Mac can actually reach, on one worksheet.