Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs

Re:Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs by dewey on Monday November 16, 2020 @06:09AM (#25110378)

Sometimes these companies have a lot of resources to harden other parts of the system though so it'll always be a trade-off.

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Re:Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs by totalZero on Monday November 16, 2020 @06:34AM (#25110521)

True, but that line of thinking assumes they will harden those things in favor of the customer/user.

The article suggests that Apple may be exempting its own apps from user-defined network traffic protection measures in order to clamp down on geographical licensing loopholes, or to keep its app traffic out of VPN servers. Either case would be to the benefit of Apple and the detriment of the customer/user IMO.

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Re:Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs by eeZah7Ux on Monday November 16, 2020 @07:34AM (#25110874)

No, not at all, when compared to Linux.

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Re:Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs by dewey on Monday November 16, 2020 @07:58AM (#25111055)

If you think Linux has no trade-offs in terms of security then you probably overestimate the security work that is invested into a lot of packages.

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Re:Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs by eeZah7Ux on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:34AM (#25122136)

I know very well how much vetting is done in Debian, and how little is done by most distros.

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