Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2

Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by devin on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:57PM (#25772237)

Link?

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Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by _qulr on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:06AM (#25772329)

There's no link because the tweet was deleted soon afterward. The tweet seems to have been very ill-advised.

I don't know how anyone can describe this as a "bug", because as the linked article describes, there's an explicit "ContentFilterExclusionList" in the Info.plist file with a list of the specific Apple services excluded. That's not by accident, it's by design.

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Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by nytgop77 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:40AM (#25772541)

bug was in the design. (or in decision leading to design)

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Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by chipotle_coyote on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:51AM (#25772622)

I don't think I'd call it a bug. It's a poor decision. I can easily believe that it wasn't a decision made with malicious intent; the culture at Apple seems (at least from the outside, judging by results) to encourage an "it's okay to give our own software special exceptions" mentality.

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Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by saagarjha on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:04AM (#25772700)

You could call it an entitled opinion.

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Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by chipotle_coyote on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:26PM (#25780072)

I see what you did there. (+1.)

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Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by dingaling on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:00AM (#25772675)

A bug is unintentional, through error or coincidence of unforeseen circumstances.

Coding a feature and providing a configuration file thereto is not a bug.

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Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by LinusS1 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @07:57PM (#25785485)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-removes-feature-that-all...

"The bugs were related to Apple deprecating network kernel extensions (NKEs) in Big Sur and introducing a new system called Network Extension Framework, and Apple engineers not having enough time to iron out all the bugs before the Big Sur launch last fall."

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