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Re: Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

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Post by cybralx »

userbinator wrote: post #17

This reminds me of the old saying that it's impossible to work within an infected system to clean it --- and now that corporations have been "infecting" systems with such telemetry/spyware by default, that's even more true. I believe Win10 was the first to do something like this --- it ignores the hosts files and firewall for certain hardcoded domain names and IPs.

I built something similar to this[1] for when I'm dealing with hosts I don't have complete control of -- to block outgoing connections. Now it seems there might be a more widespread use case.

[1] https://www.badllama.com/content/portable-raspberry-pi-firew...

Re: Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

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Post by jacobwilliamroy »

haunter wrote: post #20

"If Microsoft had done something like this circa 1999, it would have been used as evidence in the antitrust suit."

They did do something like this. They did lot of things like this. And now thanks to them we now also have case law saying that this is legal.

:c

The government has its work cut out.

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Post by mschuster91 »

DoctorNick wrote: post #10

Well, this basically confirms my decision to not purchase a macbook for my next laptop.

Why? As long as you're not getting the ARM ones, you can stick on 10.15 - which is something many will do anyway for at least a year until Apple irons out the worst bugs of BS.

Only thing I'm still pissed about 10.15 is that Wine still can't run 32-bit apps.

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Post by tlburke »

mschuster91 wrote: post #24
DoctorNick wrote: post #10

Well, this basically confirms my decision to not purchase a macbook for my next laptop.

Why? As long as you're not getting the ARM ones, you can stick on 10.15 - which is something many will do anyway for at least a year until Apple irons out the worst bugs of BS. Only thing I'm still pissed about 10.15 is that Wine still can't run 32-bit apps.

You can stay on an older version for a little while, maybe a year at most until it stops getting patches. Then you get to make the choice of using an OS that's vulnerable to exploits and an OS with a gigantic backdoor in it.

Re: Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

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Post by kypro »

This seems so negligent it's difficult for me to believe this was a mistake. Perhaps it could be argued that Apple doesn't want applications blocking the network traffic of trusted applications because there is limited upside to doing so and doing so may restrict core functionality such as system updates, etc. But surely the most reasonable explanation here is that Apple wants a back door to guarantee they can monitor your activity / allow intelligence agencies a way to access to your system?
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