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    Editing Launch Daemons

    Hey Guys, I'm wondering if anyone has advice. I'm trying to edit a launch daemon but I can't gain permissions to do so. I have SIP disabled. I'm logged in as an Admin with root user enabled. But I can't gain access to edit the plist. Obviously I can copy it over to another location edit it...
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    Root user cant be disabled

    Hello, I am an inexperienced OS X user, and I started searching about user priviliges for a while just in case for security. And when I found out about root user, I started tinkering about my Macbooks unusual activites such as not waking up from sleep, sometimes running fans at full speed at...
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    DropBox Gains Root Privilege of Your Mac Through Hack

    I'm surprised not to see this posted on MacRumors somewhere. Here are links to how DropBox is doing it, what one can do to mitigate it, etc.: http://applehelpwriter.com/2016/07/28/revealing-dropboxs-dirty-little-security-hack/#comment-27348...
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