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Apple wants kexts gone. They announced the deprecation last year, and this is another chance to force the change. (And for good reasons, if my layman's understa

Apple wants kexts gone. They announced the deprecation last year, and this is another chance to force the change. (And for good reasons, if my layman's understanding of the security is at all correct.) [https://developer.apple.com/support/kernel-extensions/](https://developer.apple.com/support/kernel-extensions/) https://developer.apple.com/support/kernel-extensions/](http...

selsta 6y ago
Apple ARM will support kexts. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_silicon/installing_a_custom_kernel_extension https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_silicon/inst...
- perardi 6y ago
  Well color me surprised. I figured that’d be on the chopping block.
  - monocasa 6y ago
    I was surprised too. I wonder which crazy peripheral (or maybe it was antivirus/intrusion detection?) made them not go all in on "only apple gets to be in kernel space".
    - perardi 6y ago
      Judging by this horrible Bitdefender Endpoint Security that IT has foisted upon me: device management and anti-malware stuff.
    - saagarjha 6y ago
      Maybe Dropbox?