No. https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/bputil.1.html https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/bputil.1.html This changes the security mode to Permissive Se

No. https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/bputil.1.html https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/bputil.1.html This changes the security mode to Permissive Security. Permissive Security uses the same "global" digital signature for macOS as the above Reduced Security option, in order to allow running software which is not the latest version. Thus anything other than the latest software therefore may have security vulnerabilities. At a high level, Permissive Security allows configuration options to be set to not require all software to be digitally signed. This can allow users who are not part of the Apple Developer program to still be able to introduce their own software into their system. Additionally, especially dangerous security downgrades may be restricted to Permissive Security, and only available via CLI tools for power users rather than GUIs. Passing this option will explicitly recreate the LocalPolicy from scratch, (i.e. it does not preserve any existing security policy options) and only the options specified via this tool will exist in the output local policy. It sounds like Apple left the boot loader unlocked on these systems, just not by default.