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> At the very least, you cannot muck with kernel memory You most certainly can. Anyone who has written a device driver has done it. > this is called System In
by ef4 10y ago
> At the very least, you cannot muck with kernel memory
You most certainly can. Anyone who has written a device driver has done it.
> this is called System Integrity Protection
That can be disabled during boot.
- eridius 10y agoIf you're writing a device driver, you're operating inside the kernel, effectively modifying the machine itself, rather than merely writing a program that the machine can run. And yes, SIP can be disabled, but OS X isn't granting you the permission do that, the recovery partition is. Once you've booted into OS X you cannot modify SIP. So again, it's more akin to modifying the machine itself.