Until then, we can all laugh at Apple every time they mention ‘privacy.Proton Technologies founder Andy Yen has written an open letter today that claims Apple is standing “in the way of human rights.” The core issue is Apple not approving a ProtonVPN iOS app update that comes amid the turmoil in Myanmar.
And more importantly, I would like Apple to come out and address this whole blunder in a way suitable for such a company. I would like more VPNs and firewalls to give us similar updates. In case the VPN connection breaks, traffic stops immediately until it reconnects – preventing apps like Apples’ from taking advantage of it.ĭuring the whole Apple privacy blunder and the company’s lame effort to cover it up, ProtonVPN’s update comes as a relief. Enabling Kill Switch prevents this by requiring the VPN to be connected before any traffic could flow on the network. Without it, traffic initiated before the VPN connection is able to connect to the internet – and remain connected – outside the VPN tunnel. The Kill Switch feature plays an important role here. If the Kill Switch feature is turned on in the VPN app, any connections outside the VPN tunnel are prevented – including Apple’s apps in the ‘exclusion list.’ According to an entry on the VPN provider’s blog, “ macOS app works on a system level and prevents these Apple apps from bypassing our VPN’s firewall.” Being a system-level app, ProtonVPN does not rely on NEFilterDataProvider or NEAppProxyProvider and uses Packet Filter mechanism to enable Kill Switch. Now folks at ProtonVPN have announced that their VPN is not affected by Big Sur’s changes. A company that talks big about privacy doesn’t understand the term itself. In fact, I don’t have the choice on macOS Big Sur. It’s not up to me when and with whom I share my information. This renders Apple’s own statement on their Privacy page untrue. But with the final version out for a week now, it has became clear that it was an intentional and silent move by Apple to allow their own traffic to be in an ‘exclusion list.’ In a nutshell, this means Apple’s apps have unrestricted network access on Big Sur. Apple’s own developer Russ Bishop said so – and later deleted the tweet. That could have been a bug – betas can be buggy. We were warned about this even before Big Sur’s big launch. But one thing we can all agree by now is Apple is not a ‘privacy company.’ How Apple – the self-proclaimed saviour and protector of our privacy – could think of having an ‘exclusion list’ to bypass firewalls and VPNs is beyond me. Here’s a joke: “Privacy is a fundamental human right.” – Apple.
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