Apple is hiding server connections from firewalls and VPNs in Big Sur

[vetoes]

You are totally right. If you don't trust Apple in the first place you shouldn't use their products at all.

But I find it kind of shady to simply hide these processes and I clearly see one major problem. You don't have any control and can't see what is going on anymore, if you want to. And as Patrick Wardle (Security Researcher) demonstrated on Twitter this lack of control can easily be exploited.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1327726496203476992

Yea but everything about this issue is irrelevant because we already had this situation and nobody said anything, all the experts, security researchers, journalist, scientist, hackers, etc. ... It's called iOS!

I think the real issue here is that people don't wont accept that MacOS will eventually become one with iOS and this is just one of many step in that direction. If everybody would just accept that then this would be non-event.

Only truly free and safe OS is Linux, real one not Android. Everything else will be like iOS, it is just matter of time.

 

[0279317]

I'm not denying conspiracies, they're serious business. I'm denying knee-jerk internet conspiracy theorists.

Here, let me show you:

?? I'd like to see what you were going to say. Were you censored?

 

[Puonti]

?? I'd like to see what you were going to say. Were you censored?

No I wasn't censored. It's all right there, you're not missing anything.

 

[TurangaLeela]

If everybody would just accept that then this would be non-event.

It is clearly not a "non-event" if the IT security of many users is endangered. So this is not a thing you just accept and then it's okay.

 

[X--X]

The developers of Little Snitch put it best:

But hiding these connections completely from the user makes no sense. It contradicts the idea of a transparent and trustworthy system and undermines the user’s trust in that system.

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[kim221]

Yoooho, work for me ^-^ Thanks <3

from terminal
mkdir mnt
sudo mount -o nobrowse -t apfs /dev/disk1s5 mnt/
(change disk if different)
sudo nano mnt/System/Library/Frameworks/NetworkExtension.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Info.plist

Remove anything between <array>, under ContentFilterExclusionList.
save
sudo bless --folder mnt/System/Library/CoreServices --bootefi --create-snapshot && sudo reboot

once done Little Snitch see everything as usual.

I guess that I need to do this with every update and that su**