Security Protections

Searching Fails due to System Protections

If an alert comes up that states searching fails due to system protections, this means Bit Slicer is unable to access this particular application's memory. This may be due to System Integrity Protection which to paraphrase is a security feature that prevents software from messing around with system owned content.

The feature also includes a protection used to prevent software and debuggers, like Bit Slicer, from accessing or injecting code into applications that opt into it. As time progresses on, more software besides Apple's applications may sign themselves into this protection. This means that while some applications are further protected from being hampered, Bit Slicer may not be able to access and manipulate them. One way around this is to disable the system wide protection. Disabling it (at least permanently) however is strongly not recommended for keeping the system secure, and is otherwise left as an exercise to the curious reader.