“Security researchers are blasting Apple for a feature in the latest Big Sur release of macOS that allows some Apple apps to bypass content filters and VPNs…” reports Threatpost. “While users assumed Apple would fix the flaw before the OS emerged from beta into full release, this doesn’t appear to have happened.” “Beginning with macOS Catalina released last year, Apple added…
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Your Computer Isn’t Yours
Security researcher Jeffrey Paul, writes in a blog post: On modern versions of macOS, you simply can’t power on your computer, launch a text editor or eBook reader, and write or read, without a log of your activity being transmitted and stored. It turns out that in the current version of the macOS, the OS sends to Apple a hash (unique…