Since the OS is in a signed and sealed volume only Apple can modify it and have it load through the secure boot loader. If you don’t trust Apple, what good would it do install another Apple OS?
And you have been wasting time for no good reason.
It wouldn't matter either way. The operating system on every M-series Macs is identical, bit for bit. If even a single bit differs from the standard installation the machine won't boot.
I was talking more about hardware modifications. Of course, this is not very common and would only apply to someone being extremely high-value target. It's been done before, but I can't say if that was on a Mac. I would say it's possible but again you have to have the target because it's not worth spending probably hundreds of thousands of dollars on just anyone
Agreed. Anyway, a high value target should not be running macOS (or Windows).
Yes, but that doesn’t protect me from unknown security holes. They are patched much later, if ever known to Apple. Some organisations help Apple to discover them. As the latest. Some probably don’t and use them in targeted attacks instead. Just remember that macOS or any other OS never is secure in the strictest sense.
What does this have to do with the decision to reinstall MacOS on a new device?
you do realize that this is an endless war? that there is no one moment when the OS (or any OS) is now fully safe? so reinstalling the OS on a brand-new mac is simply an act of paranoia....
Nobody claimed that MacOS was perfectly secure just that reinstalling your OS doesn’t have any security purpose.
Yes, that sums up what I wrote.
But people might think that. Stating OS being signed and so on.
then what's the point of a reinstall of the OS over the OS when one first powers their mac on?
