On: Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

[claudeganon]

In the Vault 7 leaks, Little Snitch was mentioned as something three letter people had problems with circumventing. I think it's worth considering whether this new attack surface is there by design:

https://blog.obdev.at/little-snitch-on-vault-7/

[smnrchrds → claudeganon]

I didn't follow up on the Reuters news piece from January titled "Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources". Has it been confirmed? If yes, then your assertion is most probably correct.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

[claudeganon → smnrchrds]

That Reuter's piece is original reporting that Apple never responded to, so I would say that it's all but confirmed that they did in fact do this at the FBI's request.

[Hermel → claudeganon]

Do you mean “all but” literally (everything except confirmed) or colloquially (absolutely confirmed)?

(I hate the term “all but”. I find it often hard to tell what people actually want to say when using it.)

[claudeganon → Hermel]

The former. For it to be the latter, Apple or FBI would have to explicitly state as much.

[inquirerofsorts → claudeganon]

Why is this comment greyed out? It's an entirely valid question to arrive at.

[ineedasername → inquirerofsorts]

Possibly someone(s) not familiar with the reporting that implicates the possibility that speculation is correct.