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« on: June 27, 2018, 04:05:19 pm »

How to turn off System Integrity Protection in macOS

System Integrity Protection exists to keep your Mac safe. If you absolutely need to turn it off, however, here's how you do it.

System Integrity Protection (SIP) is a security feature of macOS originally introduced in OS X El Capitan designed to make it even more difficult for malware to access important system files, keeping them safe from unwanted modifications. In the early days of SIP, some developers ran into problems when the system would keep core functionality of their apps from working properly because those apps made changes to the way the operating system worked by editing the system files that SIP was now in place to protect.

SIP exists to keep your Mac safe. There's no good reason that most Mac users should feel the need to disable it, especially these days. Tools that needed functionality that SIP cut off have generally either fallen by the wayside or found a way to work with SIP.  That being said, if you absolutely need to turn off System Integrity Protection, there'...

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