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That's what Big Tech wants you to think. Keeps you on their leash.

There's a whole world out there beyond their walled gardens.

"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."

It's not a black and white issue easily swept under the rug by an elitist platitude about what the cowering masses deserve. There's a lot of installation cases (older hardware -> newest systems) where System Integrity Protection will be partially lowered by default[1], and most installations will need to keep it that way.

That needn't be a show stopper, but before somebody starts patching with OCLP, some deliberation about their threat model and their macOS security expectations would be healthy. Specially for hand-me-down hardware that ends up in less tech-savvy hands.

[1] https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/POST-INST...

Exactly. I use (and support) lots of open-source software and trust it. But a hacked OS is too fundamental, and I don't want to have to remember, "Oh yeah, don't do any banking on this."

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