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This is the same case in any OS when you're deleting things with root privileges.

• charcircuit 3y ago
  Just because current OS suck at protecting themselves, that doesn't mean that it is acceptable.
• tambourine_man 3y ago
  I macOS you can’t delete system files, even with root privileges, unless you disable system integrity, which requires a restart. Not the same at all.
  • LoganDark 3y ago
    in macOS a developer is like 90% likely to already have SIP disabled, because if at any point they had to do even one single thing that SIP didn't like, they would have had to completely turn off all security for the entire operating system
    • tambourine_man 3y ago
      Where did you take that percentage from? It’s very likely the other way around. Almost no one, developers included, have SIP disabled. If you need kernel extensions you should look for a different solution, at least on the Mac.
      • LoganDark 3y ago
        Little Snitch required a kernel extension until the Network Filter API was introduced. Homebrew required SIP to be disabled when it was first introduced but that's almost definitely fixed now. Some other software like certain hypervisors could have required it. I just think it's more likely for someone to disable SIP than find a different program that doesn't mind it, and those programs were all over the place when it was first introduced. Less so now, I suppose. > If you need kernel extensions you should look for a different solution, at least on the Mac. In 2023 sure.