Apple’s Private Relay can cause the system to ignore firewall rules

Re:Apple’s Private Relay can cause the system to ignore fire... by gigel82 on Monday April 25, 2022 @04:41PM (#31160325)

It's not the first time Apple allowed certain applications bypass the firewall / VPN (see https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/apples-own-programs-bypass-f... ).

It is very bad indeed; not even Microsoft dares to do this in Windows (you can still very much block any network request from any part of the system via firewalls or DNS ad-blockers).

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Re:Apple’s Private Relay can cause the system to ignore fire... by adamomada on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:39PM (#31161726)

I’ve been using little snitch for a decade+ and as far as I remember it was the only time, and was probably a mistake by Apple.

From your link:

> Objective Development, the developers of Little Snitch, also writes about the discovery - and that they take it for granted that Apple will correct it. (Update, 14 January 2021: Apple indeed appears to have removed the whitelist exemption in macOS Big Sur 11.2 beta 2.)

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Re:Apple’s Private Relay can cause the system to ignore fire... by ridgered4 on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @07:56AM (#31166375)

Is that true? I thought I recall reading the Windows firewall resets itself and that come call homes use hard coded IPs.

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