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lapcat • today at 1:04 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> What alleviates my worst fears is the knowledge that every technical user at Apple itself needs to use their Mac as the powerful Unix workstation OS that it is.

What Gruber didn't realize is that Apple gives its engineers special internal tools that can bypass the restrictions we on the outside have to suffer.

I'm sure it's also the case that internal development macOS builds are compiled differently than public release builds. They basically have to be for Apple engineers to modify them during development.


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eddieroger • today at 1:46 PM

> restrictions we on the outside have to suffer

We can disable SIP with a reboot to recovery and a single command. That doesn't seem like too high a bridge to cross and probably as good as any internal tool, if that isn't what they get in the first place.

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wpm • today at 1:44 PM

It's like how all of the retail floor models are managed by Jamf Pro but you won't see an MDM profile in the Settings app.