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Seriously. Apple have absolutely fractional actual reasons to limit non macOS boots on M1 devices. The fact they've made the transition & taken macOS to a whole
by breakfastduck 5y ago
Seriously. Apple have absolutely fractional actual reasons to limit non macOS boots on M1 devices. The fact they've made the transition & taken macOS to a whole version beyond X and kept supporting non apple OS boots on the devices proves (to me at least) that they're not going to remove it. If there ever was a time to lock that down, it was on the architecture shift.
- amelius 5y ago> and kept supporting non apple OS boots They don't officially (!) support it.
- jolux 5y agoOf course they don’t, or people wouldn’t have to be reverse engineering things. But it doesn’t affect your hardware warranty.
- snazz 5y agoThey do officially support the Permissive security policy, and it is intended to allow you to boot custom kernels. Running a fully-untrusted operating system kernel is an intended feature, even if they aren't going to give you support if something breaks in the upper layers. See https://support.apple.com/guide/security/startup-disk-security-policy-control-sec7d92dc49f/web#seca904a9a35 https://support.apple.com/guide/security/startup-disk-securi...
- breakfastduck 5y agoYes, they do
- bkallus 5y agoSuppose there's a macOS exploit found that makes use of the unlocked bootloader. Are you certain Apple would actually patch it, and not just lock the bootloader? Sony famously did that to the PS3.
- saagarjha 5y agoYou can ”exploit” macOS by disabling SIP, which requires about as much effort.