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It's not the first time Apple allowed certain applications bypass the firewall / VPN (see https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/apples-own-programs-bypass-f... ).

It is very bad indeed; not even Microsoft dares to do this in Windows (you can still very much block any network request from any part of the system via firewalls or DNS ad-blockers).

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I’ve been using little snitch for a decade+ and as far as I remember it was the only time, and was probably a mistake by Apple.

From your link:

> Objective Development, the developers of Little Snitch, also writes about the discovery - and that they take it for granted that Apple will correct it. (Update, 14 January 2021: Apple indeed appears to have removed the whitelist exemption in macOS Big Sur 11.2 beta 2.)

Is that true? I thought I recall reading the Windows firewall resets itself and that come call homes use hard coded IPs.

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