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OlyEvans 5 hours ago

You're right - disabling SIP is a real security relaxation, not something I want to handwave.

A few clarifications that might be useful: Liquid Radius doesn't touch /System or modify the SSV. The dylib lives in /Library, not on the SSV, and injects into SkyLight at runtime.

I definitely wouldn't recommend the average person to install this app unless they actually understand what it entails.

Genuinely curious from an ex apple engineer, are you aware of any system wide visual tweak like this that can be done without injection, or is that just technically impossible?

& thanks for your comment.

LatencyKills 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> Liquid Radius doesn't touch /System or modify the SSV

I'm not doubting you, but by requiring users to disable SIP you are effectively opening their entire system to SSV attacks. 99% of "regular" users won't understand that tradeoff.

Rounded corners are not worth disabling the operating system's major security protections, especially in today's crazy cyber environment.

yabai [0] is a good example of how this type of tool can be shared. I would never install a closed-source app that requires me to disable SIP without being able to build it myself.

> are you aware of any system wide visual tweak like this that can be done without injection

There used to be several ways to do it (e.g. userdefaults) but AFAIK that is no longer possible. As I'm sure you already know, there are ways to do this to individual apps which would probably be a better use-case.

[0]: https://github.com/asmvik/yabai