On Oct 23, 2014, at 11:24 AM, Landon J Fuller wrote:
> 
> On Oct 22, 2014, at 5:25 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 22, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Dan Ports wrote:
>> 
>>> I haven't upgraded to Yosemite myself yet, but I'm hearing that in
>>> 10.10 the system refuses to load any unsigned kernel modules by
>>> default.
>> 
>> I can understand the security motivations behind this change. You don't want 
>> untrusted code running in your kernel.
> 
> It’s no more untrusted than any other code being run from MacPorts :-)

There's most certainly a difference in the potential for damage from bad kernel 
code vs. bad user code. One can cause a kernel panic; the other can't.


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