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    This is indeed added in El Capitan, and can be disabled from the recovery partition with csrutil enable --without debug (the --without option is undocumented). Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 19:12
  • @4ae1e1 That disables the feature entirely? Is there control over whether a specific executable is in the protected/restricted set? Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 22:24
  • There is /System/Library/Sandbox/rootless.conf, but I believe it's undocumented, and the conf file itself is under Filesystem Protection of SIP (so you'll have to --without filesystem first to make any changes to it; even then I'm not sure if changes would be picked up, since I never tried). Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 23:24
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    Found this Apple Developer Forums thread with some QA allegedly from WWDC Security and Privacy Lab. Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 23:38