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It would not be safe to remove AppArmor in the sense of the word. You would be disabling a security system designed to be in place for protecting you. So it would indeed make you less safe. What you want to know is: yes you can remove it without side-effects but lessen that system's security with it.
But the changes to apparmor are quite minimal, if you ...
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You can remove AppArmor without immediately killing the system. Nothing relies on it to function.
But it is there for a reason. If security really isn't a concern, that's fair enough, but if you're just doing it for a quick convenience, consider learning how to adapt the rules.
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This can be done with apparmor-notify
Install it through apt (sudo apt-get install apparmor-notify)
In /etc/apparmor/notify.conf change the usergroup to 'adm' (all users using sudo are in this group)
add aa-notify -p to your startup applications.
You can then test it by triggering a AppArmor Denied event with
sudo tcpdump -i eth0 -n -s 0 -w /foo
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