&gt; Honest question: do you hate root? Should all processes run with equal privileges?<p>Of course not. Stop making up straw-man arguments.<p>&gt; Without them, their devices – the ones you insist they should own – would quickly become someone else&#x27;s: the attacker&#x27;s<p>So users cannot run <i>any</i> program they download? Or are you claiming that programs that run as a user - with no intention of touching system files - cannot harm that same user? Many past exploits and trojans run entirely as the user.<p>SIP may protect the <i>OS</i>, but it will do very little to protect <i>the user</i>. Unfortunately, while this should be obvious, scaring people into giving up their freedom works, even when the &quot;solution&quot; doesn&#x27;t actually do much (or anything) to prevent the supposed threat.