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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by ccmcarey on Friday May 22, 2020 @01:04PM (#23274326)
It doesn't work when there's no network connection, wonder if it would be possible to filter out and automatically block notarization traffic, or if it's all encrypted with cert pinning to prevent this type of MITM+filter.
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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by Karliss on Saturday May 23, 2020 @01:34AM (#23280211)
Dropping packets when there is an otherwise working connection could potentially make the delay even worse depending on timeout or retry strategy used by Apple code. I assume that in the fast case without network connection it checks the network status flag and doesn't try to do any network connection at all.
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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by ttsda on Friday May 22, 2020 @01:15PM (#23274478)
I'm still on 10.14, but I guess it will show up on Little Snitch. Unless they bundle it with some other more essential traffic.
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