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

Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by blub on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:59AM (#25776288)

This kind of black and white thinking is very impractical and self-defeating, except maybe for RMS, to remind us what we should strive for.

For most of us, the real world decision is to either work with a company which is actively working on undermining privacy or with one which is trying to improve things.

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Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by vaduz on Thursday January 14, 2021 @09:34AM (#25776715)

Did I say I would stop working with them?

In the real world, Apple still gets to have their business and people work with them, but enough stink is raised to both externally and privately to get them to change their decision. Which they have evidently done here, so working as intended. Reputation damage is a thing if it involves conversations with other F100 companies.

This particular debacle is one of the reasons why $CurrentCorpo I am occasionally working with decided to skip Big Sur until much later in the lifecycle - not the only one, though.

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