Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar i agree, i have some complaints but overall i think “system integrity protection” and related things are quite well-designed

Saagar Jha

(replying to Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@hikari If Apple ships AMFI Trusted Keys I will go back and like this

Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar could you tell me more about what the hell that is

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Saagar Jha

(replying to Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@hikari Image if you could be the root of trust on your machine

Skip R. :ms_two_male_symbols:

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar @hikari (pain noise from having been complaining about this for months)

Skip R. :ms_two_male_symbols:

(replying to Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many))

@hikari @saagar at risk of dunning-krugering too hard i think what Saagar is trying to get at is that because SIP is the first line of defense in a lot of ways your two choices are "be able to snoop on platform binaries/poke around, but your security posture is utterly fucked" and "literally can't do anything interesting"

Saagar Jha

(replying to Skip R. :ms_two_male_symbols:)
@slice @hikari This is actually the security model of all computers Apple just identifies it as something specific

Skip R. :ms_two_male_symbols:

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar @hikari it actually drives me insane that Apple actually has the opportunity to innovate here (and has, e.g. wrt BootPolicy) but they just don't

Saagar Jha

(replying to Skip R. :ms_two_male_symbols:)
@slice @hikari They do. Internally
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Skip R. :ms_two_male_symbols:

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar @hikari shout out to my friend who literally just gave up getting AMFITrustedKeys on a retail unit and just got hired instead

Saagar Jha

(replying to Skip R. :ms_two_male_symbols:)
@slice @hikari Skill issue

Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar @slice what, do you have the skill

Saagar Jha

(replying to Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@hikari @slice No comment

Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar @slice what, have you done it

Saagar Jha

(replying to Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@hikari @slice No