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cutler on Nov 13, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Your Computer Isn't Yours

It won't be long before logging into the root account on your Mac is flagged as suspicious.

dannyw on Nov 13, 2020 [–]

Flagged? It won't be long before `sudo` is removed from macOS.

Why? For security, of course, and you'd get a million people defending it.

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