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Comment by fortran77

6 years ago

I'm surprised that Mac doesn't have a built-in firewall that warns if an app installs something that listens on a port. They advertise OSX as being "secure by design."

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mikeash  6 years ago

The built-in firewall does exactly that. It may not do that for things that only listen on localhost, though.

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