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or they started getting security bugs from the fuzzer teams. (it's a hard problem to sanitize so many exectutables, and the people who use VPNs are probably high-value customers, like business people wfh)

Having to be told by outsiders that this backdoor could be abused by malware is pretty embarrassing. It's hard to imagine Apple's engineers weren't aware of that.

> positive move that would improve security

That they purposefully added in the first place to let only Apple apps bypass third-party firewalls?