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Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by lilyball on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:01AM (#25788192)
I suspect the number of macOS machines on networks with misconfigured DNS is far higher than the number of macOS machines whose admins want to prevent them from talking to Apple. So I’m glad they’re going to great lengths to preserve their ability to communicate with Apple even under adverse network conditions.
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Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by user3939382 on Friday January 15, 2021 @05:50AM (#25789309)
I appreciate giving people the benefit of the doubt, but this feels overly charitable to me. I doubt they’re worried about accidentally misconfigured /etc/hosts files.

Much more likely is that they were aware of outbound firewalls like Little Snitch and want to evade user attempts to block their software, as discussed in the main article here.

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