> I'm not much of a Mac user but I'm guessing the parent comment wanted readonly user install path so accidental/malicious rm -rf only affects the user data and not the installed programs?
That's one possible interpretation, but it's at odds with how most people use the `$PATH` anyways -- there's lots of local read-writable stuff on it in typical cases. And of course, even without that, persistence is trivial for an attacker with local code execution.
That's one possible interpretation, but it's at odds with how most people use the `$PATH` anyways -- there's lots of local read-writable stuff on it in typical cases. And of course, even without that, persistence is trivial for an attacker with local code execution.