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For those like me who were unaware:

> The main task of SIP on Mac is to protect the safety and integrity of the system files and directories, preventing them from modifications or attacks from unauthenticated processes. It brings a high level of security to the entire system.

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I’m not sure id say disabling it is terrible advice, but the feature is useful. These files are still protected by standard root access, but I suppose the issue was people getting tricked in to copy pasting things in to bash and typing their password in. Or maybe GUI apps asking for admin and doing bad things.

The feature has only existed for around 7 years and macOS wasn’t horribly broken before that time.

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