Prison isn’t set up for today’s tech so we have to do legal work the old way (prisonjournalismproject.org)

Assuming they're USB devices they shouldn't be a reason to do this... Apple moved third-party drivers for USB devices and audio HAL extensions to user space, so there's some minor overhead choosing DriverKit over IOKit. Everything I've dug up says it's low single digit percentages. I wouldn't be developing USB drivers against IOKit anymore personally and I'd be looking to move over pretty aggressively before Apple drops the hammer.

Barbing · 1h ago

Useful, thank you! Looks like the author just enjoys helping fellow nerds. Nice

8ig8 · 1h ago

Dr Howard Oakley. I think of him as an OG Mac guy.

ostensible · 55m ago

`man csrutil`

userbinator · 2h ago

s/booting securely/running only the code Apple approves of/g

arcticbull · 1h ago

Not exactly, distribution conversation aside this is specific to kernel extensions. Apple's been moving drivers out of kernel space and into user space for several years [1]. There's a lot of good reasons for doing so, and not a lot of drawbacks. I'd consider this to be a strongly worded API deprecation notice.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/driverkit

bapak · 2h ago

You can run unverified code if you build it yourself. You can distribute unverified code by just paying $99/year to Apple. Not great, but still no need for specific code approval.

Gigachad · 27m ago

You can run whatever scripts you want without paying anything. Pretty sure the signing thing only applies to .app programs.

cyberax · 1h ago

Not if you want to use some features like bridged networking. For that you need to go and beg Apple for an entitlement. Or you have to disable SIP entirely.

Barbing · 1h ago

They respond to the begging as incredibly well as they respond to feedback/bug reports, right?

cyberax · 17m ago

To be fair, they _do_ respond well in this particular case. But you have to write an email to a developer somewhere in Apple, as there is no established process.

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