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Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur

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1183 points robenkleene | 1 comments | 20 Oct 20 15:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.272s | source
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pier25 ◴[20 Oct 20 16:15 UTC] No.24839111[source]▶
A bit contradictory with Apple's supposedly privacy-focused approach, no?
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threatofrain ◴[20 Oct 20 19:59 UTC] No.24841770[source]▶
Big entities probably make up 99% of the firewall market today, and for those who currently want firewalls, it makes far more sense to have independent hardware.

The use case for an end user managing their firewall experience with a 3rd-party software-based firewall AND who also wish to monitor Apple traffic is very niche.

For the overwhelming portion of the population, I would be more worried about the MacOS security model. Someone's iPad or iPhone experience can only be screwed up so much and can be reset without losing data. For MacOS the stakes are a lot higher, and users are trained to enter credentials for annoying-to-audit vague permissions.

In my view, MacOS is the biggest security hole in Apple's ecosystem. Doesn't this make you wonder how Apple will handle the health app on MacOS?

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pier25 ◴[20 Oct 20 20:45 UTC] No.24842198[source]▶
> In my view, MacOS is the biggest security hole in Apple's ecosystem.

Is it? Can you elaborate?

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