It’s reminiscent of when Apple quietly prevented apps like Bus圜ontacts and HoudahSpot from indexing Mail’s email archive in Catalina, regardless of how you set your permissions. I suspect it’s just another change that Apple has made-perhaps in the name of overall security, perhaps merely with no thought to what developers and users want-that has an unintended and undesirable consequence. I don’t believe this move shows any grand conspiracy to undermine TripMode or Little Snitch. Block or allow traffic from these Apple apps.Know which domains or IP addresses these Apple apps interact with.Know how much data these Apple apps upload or download.View a full, uncensored list of apps trying to access the Internet on their Mac - as Apple is hiding 56 of its own apps.Starting with macOS Big Sur, users can’t: With macOS Big Sur however, that changed, as application-level firewalls now need to use the new NetworkExtensions APIs, such as NEFilterDataProvider or NEAppProxyProvider, to offer a similar level of functionality as in previous macOS releases. or better yet, abandon Apple.ĭavid Dudok de Wit (developer of TripMode, tweet, Radar): Now, I guess I have to run some external firewall between my laptop and my phone. With a firewall, I can grant access to only the processes that I need to get my work done.
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When I tether my laptop it thinks it has free reign with the bandwidth and all of the little background processes can kill my data in a few minutes. That totally breaks my use case for Little Snitch: working tethered. Getting rid of kernel extensions “for our security”? DIRTY FUCKING LIE! Now you can’t stop Apple from phoning home. NEXTs = obviously more complexity than KEXTs = bigger attack surface… and all you need is a “NEXT exempt exploit” (which will definitely happen at some point), and won’t be able to intercept malware traffic. Previously, a comprehensive macOS firewall could be implemented via a Network Kernel Extension (kext)Īpple deprecated kexts, giving us Network Extensions.but apparently (many of) their apps / daemons bypass this filtering mechanism. The new beta for seems to use an NEFilterDataProvider instead of kext, I don’t think they will be able to block Maps from tile loading.
Maps for example can directly access the internet bypassing any NEFilterDataProvider or NEAppProxyProviders you have running 😒 Some Apple apps bypass some network extensions and VPN Apps. Apple Apps Exempt From Network Filters and VPNs
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