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Little Snitch catches a lot but gives a blank check to large parts of macOS as not to cause weird behavior of the OS. Some of macOS's phone home calls don't use
by user3939382 4y ago
Little Snitch catches a lot but gives a blank check to large parts of macOS as not to cause weird behavior of the OS. Some of macOS's phone home calls don't use DNS and instead directly use random IP ranges belonging to Apple so that the only way to block them is to blackhole their ranges at the router. Unless you do that per interface, that means now iOS iMessage won't work and bunch of other things break when your phone is on wifi. Really fixing this problem is a complete PITA.
- d11z 4y agoI can't really speak to this because I no longer own or can afford a Mac, I just know it did the trick for me in the past. The reality of our tangled mess that is data privacy issues is really almost grotesque at this point.
- sneak 4y agoYou can disable these "blank check" rules; I do. You can't use iMessage if you want privacy from Apple; trying to block phone-home to Apple while still using their hardware-serial-number-linked-services is silly. You have to give up iMessage, FaceTime, Handoff, iCloud, App Store, Apple Music, all of it if you want privacy from Apple (obviously).