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The bypassing has nothing to do with wanting to hide it from users Even if they did care about hiding it, they know how trivial it would be to discover it, as w

• joshspankit 6y ago
  The bypassing has to do with exerting their control despite user wishes. Hiding “complexity” from users is one method that is at the core of Apple’s brand. Yes, very smart people uncover this kind of thing regularly, but the trend feels like Apple is just trying to refine the process until they have a “perfectly secure” device by virtue of the fact that not even legitimate owners are able to enforce their wishes when those wishes are counter to Apple’s mandates.
  • lawnchair_larry 6y ago
    You’re making assumptions about their motivations, and they’re not correct. They are not doing it despite user wishes. They did it under the reasonable assumption that the user has no such wish. It likely didn’t cross their mind.
    • joshspankit 6y ago
      Yes. We’re both making assumptions. Apple is surely aware of Little Snitch and other firewalls, and that the markets for that are dependant on a percentage of users who want absolute insight and control in to their network traffic. Similarly, there are journalists and sources who must by nature be very cautious about all network traffic. It would be hard to argue I think that Apple is unaware of both of these groups of users, and if they are aware; it must follow that it crossed their mind. Whether that crossing their mind means they discarded it or intentionally chose to go against it may be a question that only gets answered in hindsight since Apple says very little publicly.