That excessive. Installing a lock to which the building owner owns a key is still an improvement over not installing a lock at all. There's a difference betwee

That excessive. Installing a lock to which the building owner owns a key is still an improvement over not installing a lock at all. There's a difference between "All your connections are wide open, so any malicious or compromised software can connect to the web" and "Apple can connect to the web, so you have to decide whether to trust Apple." I mean, if you're on a mac and you don't trust Apple not to be secretly keylogging your passwords or something, I think a firewall isn't going to help you.