&gt; This doesn&#x27;t have a damn thing to do with dtrace. This is about Apple asserting that they own your computer, de facto, not you.<p>Dtrace is one of the features that is limited by SIP so yes this has something to do with dtrace.<p>&gt; That the ability to disable SIP will always be available, forever, even though Apple has incentives to continue making their products more an &quot;applicance&quot; and less a &quot;computer&quot;. I already said there are hardware features in new CPUs that are specifically designed to make that impossible.<p>Yes apple could get rid of the ability to turn off SIP, I don&#x27;t believe they will. Doing so would anger developers and technical users, these people have a huge amount of say on what technology get used in their organization.<p>&gt; That SIP will continue, forever into the future, to protect only those hidden directories.<p>I don&#x27;t assume that it will only protect those hidden directories, because it protects other system resources as well. I also hope apple keeps adding to the list of protected resources, to continue securing Mac OSX and IOS.<p>&gt; Why is it that any time someone starts grabbing for power, there are always people that say we should ignore it because there is some workaround, or it&#x27;s only an insignificant amount of power? Power is accumulated in small steps, with the hope that nobody notices until iti is too late.<p>This is not a power grab, this is a company securing their products for their users. Even if this somehow is a power grab by apple, so what. No one is forced to buy apple&#x27;s products, and if apple wants to do things that make there products less desirable, again so what, people might start switching to a competitor. It&#x27;s not like apple is the government, nor is it a monopoly.<p>&gt; Apple is taking your root access away, and you&#x27;re fine with it. They are saying that they de facto own your computer, not you. Yet you&#x27;re fine with it.<p>Apple has not taken root access from me, I can still do whatever I want on my Mac Pro.<p>&gt; Again, you might want to think long and hard about the long-term consequences of giving up root access to Apple. Security can be provided for the user without handing control over to Apple.<p>Again I still have root on my laptop, yes I had to boot into recovery mode first, but afterwards I can sudo away. To me it seems like you haven&#x27;t heard of Mandatory Access Controls, Operating systems have had the ability to reduce the privileges of root for a long time. Thats all SIP is a application of Mandatory Access Controls, SIP is built on top of the TrustedBSD MAC framework that FreeBSD, IOS, and MAC OSX all share. The MAC framework has been in IOS and Mac for a decade and apple have been slowly using it to hardened there operating systems and SIP is just a progression of this. You would think you would be happy that apple is trying to improve the security of their products.