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Modded Continuity Activation Tool (BTLE cards) with El Capitan is working
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You shouldn't need to keep it off. After it is confirmed running, you can turn SIP back on.
Nice to hear. Interesting, so there doesn't seem to be a blacklist anymore.
As for the SIP (rootless), the tool should detect the current status and disable it if necessary. I think I messed up here though, because the tool doesn't force a reboot to actually disable rootless (so you might have to run the tool twice).
You can enable rootless after verifying Continuity works via the option in the tools main menu.
After turning off sip, it began to work. When I went back into recovery to turn it back on it stopped working?
Hm, that shouldn't be the case. Might be because you got an MBA.. Will look into it.
You can keep SIP turned off for the moment.
Hold down Command +R buttons (at same time) while rebooting the Mac. Doing that makes the Mac boot into what is known as "Recovery Mode." Once you see the Apple logo and the status bar, you can let go of the Command +R keys. When it loads, you should see a menu of options. Look at the top of the screen for "Utilities." Click that and the bottom option under it is the one you want to click. When the next menu comes up, uncheck the box, confirm you want to turn SIP off, and reboot. Same procedure for turning it back on.
Never mind, it was the notifyr app causing the issue. I disabled the notifyr app, then turned sip back on and it works fine now.
We've lived through 10 versions of OS X without enforced kext signing and 11 without root protection and now suddenly its a massive security issue to disable these "features"?
I think they might just be concerned with the rise in Proof of Concept malware for the Mac to be going this length for enforcing such things on users. You are right, did not need this for 10 years, but the rise in the number of proof of concept malware may have made them do this.
I can understand kext signing but I think rootless is going too far and it scares me that they will lock the system down and not give us a way to opt out.
I think the Linux security model is much better using a combinations of UNIX permissions, ACL and SELinux. Selinux is great because you can add exceptions in the same way that you would add to a firewall which makes it so much more flexible than a blanket "you can't touch that file under any circumstances".
I wonder if this will affect the UNIX and POSIX compliance of OS X?
That's correct - enforcing better security is one thing, going way too far to totally thwart any modification that they don't want users to make, is absolutely another. They did it with their hardware, and now lately, this may just be the start for software.
Where are you able to buy the card now? Please provide me a link. I am on Late 2011 MBP 15 8,2.
Also, I tried the tool on my Late 2011 MBP 15 and the tool reports an error that it is damaged and needs to be trashed!
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Go to security preferences and toggle to install from anywhere, then you can install the app. Once installed, you can toggle back.
So I am using a USB dongle with the BCM20702 chipset which worked perfect under 10.10. With the modded version of the tool I noticed a line saying something like skipping patching BT4 usb dongle or something to that effect. I rebooted and signed out and back into iCloud and still no option to enable in settings>general. This is a white unibody 2010 macbook if that matters.
That's the same computer as mine and the one giving me this problem.
Did you disable SIP in recovery or just use the tool straight ahead? In case you did the recovery thing, did you see this problem?
