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Comment by kowlo | Hacker News Reader

Unlikely that they will backpedal on this, regardless of how much media attention it gets.

If a macOS user has an issue with this, time to look for a new OS whilst avoiding the upgrade to Big Sur for as long as possible. Those who depend on it for their business will have issues...

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An Apple engineer tweeted that the firewall bypass was just a bug and not intentional behavior, but after getting hate replies he gave up and made his account private.

Either that or corporate told him to stop. Probably a combination of both, to be honest; situations where you the next steps are disappearing off the internet for a while are never easy :(

Well he also tweeted something along the lines of "if everyone is just going to get angry I'll just stop tweeting/delete my twitter"

Last I checked I don't think the account is deleted at the moment, although the first tweet is gone (and I never saw the other one you mentioned). That being said, I'm not at all surprised by that response–like I said, having an offhand tweet of yours get significant attention, and then have people come after you and attack you on top of whatever corporate might have to say to you on the topic, is a great way to get something like that. It's exactly things like these why most Apple engineers don't say much or publicly affiliate themselves with the company–and I am sure that the people who decided to go after him were well aware of what what kinds of things happen after that.

In any case it's not an acceptable bug if you want to brand yourself as secure.

If they backpedal or not it was a shitty trust breaking arrogance driven decision that should be remembered forever.

Apple literally solved their production chain suicide issues by installing nets to catch jumpers, which made the rounds across media https://www.wired.com/2011/02/ff-joelinchina/

I didn't see people ditching Apple then with people life on the line, I don't see people ditching Apple for a software configuration.

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