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MacOS Big Sur reveals Apple secretly hates your VPN and firewall – TechRadar
Apple apps in the latest release of macOS can bypass firewalls and VPNs
If you’re using a Mac VPN and recently updated your device to Big Sur, your privacy may be at risk as it was discovered that Apple apps are able to bypass both firewalls and VPN services in the company’s latest version of macOS.
Twitter user mxswd first spotted the issue back in October and provided more details in a tweet which reads: Some Apple apps bypass some network extensions and VPN Apps. Maps for example can directly access the internet bypassing any NEFilterDataProvider or NEAppProxyProviders…
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