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Its possible that they saw it as a purely positive move that would improve security on MacOS and then after seeing everyone's response they reevaluated its impo
by SulfurHexaFluri 6y ago
Its possible that they saw it as a purely positive move that would improve security on MacOS and then after seeing everyone's response they reevaluated its importance.
- onelovetwo 6y ago> positive move that would improve security That they purposefully added in the first place to let only Apple apps bypass third-party firewalls?
- m463 6y agoor they started getting security bugs from the fuzzer teams. (it's a hard problem to sanitize so many exectutables, and the people who use VPNs are probably high-value customers, like business people wfh)
- tempodox 6y agoHaving to be told by outsiders that this backdoor could be abused by malware is pretty embarrassing. It's hard to imagine Apple's engineers weren't aware of that.