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Removing apps you don’t want and will never use seems like something you should be able to do on your machine.


There are people who will run their graphical session as root, and throw in a "chmod -R 777 /" for good measure; and there are people who will go through convoluted steps to disable runtime kernel module loading, mount / read-only, and run their web browser in a container. Now I'm definitely not on the latter extreme, but if I can have a decently-hardened system out of the box, why would I throw that away just to remove a builtin app?

Everything is a compromise, by the way.


Are we still talking about macOS? If so, sudo rm -f does not work on a file with the restricted flag set. Based on that, I don’t see how modifying it with a child would work either. SIP is powerful


stupid autocorrect, s/child/chmod/


because people resent the system being hardened against them, basically.




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