[HN Gopher] macOS 14 Sonoma firewall bug fixed
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       macOS 14 Sonoma firewall bug fixed
        
       Author : elashri
       Score  : 86 points
       Date   : 2023-09-26 17:29 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (mullvad.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (mullvad.net)
        
       | nikanj wrote:
       | Once again submitting the bug report to HN gets you much better
       | results than sending it to Apple
        
         | KennyBlanken wrote:
         | The real question is how such a major security related bug made
         | it into the second public beta.
         | 
         | A company with Apple's resources should have extensive in-house
         | automated and manual testing and validation, and basic firewall
         | rule eval / VPN problems shouldn't be an issue that makes it
         | this far.
        
           | dvngnt_ wrote:
           | I'm sure they do, but is that specific test case in their
           | suite?
        
           | LeoPanthera wrote:
           | > The real question is how such a major security related bug
           | made it into the second public beta.
           | 
           | Does it matter? Isn't that the point of betas?
        
         | mschuster91 wrote:
         | PR and legal teams and forums frequented by employees are the
         | only way to short-circuit the corporate feedback layers.
        
           | miki123211 wrote:
           | Also direct email addresses harvested from GitHub (sometimes)
           | and apparently also investor relations.
           | 
           | In some countries, if you're part of a retirement fund that
           | owns stock in a company, you might get away with calling
           | yourself an investor in a letter / email / phone call to
           | investor relations. Nobody wants investors to be disgruntled,
           | so if one asks for something and it's not a terrible
           | imposition (think actually looking at a flagged customer
           | instead of bouncing them from bot to script-following
           | employee) many companies actually go for it and fulfill the
           | request without much checking.
        
         | olliej wrote:
         | Based on?
         | 
         | You understand how betas work right?
        
           | tumult wrote:
           | It was in the release candidate.
           | 
           | It was in the betas, too, and they submitted it as a bug
           | early on, and it wasn't fixed in any of the betas or the
           | first release candidate. This is covered in the article.
        
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