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youseecomrade | 7 years ago

Isn't a "little" insecure having to rely on random kext and random internet files to run your base system? Or are they always open source or something? I know very little about MacOS

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chrisper|7 years ago

A lot of them are open source. But many of the kext come from reputable people from the community.

Obviously there is always a risk.

ryanlol|7 years ago

It's not that different from running any software from the internet.

youseecomrade|7 years ago

"[..] They (kexts) run at the OS's highest privilege level; ring-0."