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gardaani on Nov 15, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

A year ago, a Chrome update (its Keystone auto-update agent) corrupted system files in Macs which had SIP disabled [1]. The result was that they didn't boot anymore. Mac users who had SIP enabled were not affected.

I won't disable SIP and I'll avoid installing Google Chrome on my new Macs, if possible.

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/15235262?hl=en

dreamcompiler on Nov 15, 2020 | [–]

If you can figure out how to disable SIP, you can figure out how to disable Keystone. The latter is probably a much better idea.

Wowfunhappy on Nov 15, 2020 | [–]

A major application briefly had a (very bad) bug. It happens. It probably won’t happen the same way again.

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