{"id":2886,"date":"2014-06-03T17:13:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T06:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2014-06-03T17:13:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T06:13:05","slug":"why-do-new-macbooks-ship-with-the-firewall-off-by-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/2014\/06\/03\/why-do-new-macbooks-ship-with-the-firewall-off-by-default\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do new MacBooks ship with the firewall off by default?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a new MacBook Pro. It&#8217;s the fifth one I&#8217;ve had since 2005, and as usual the hardware is gorgeous, and migrating from the old laptop was a breeze.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s one thing that boggles my mind about the default system configuration&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/files\/2014\/06\/firewall.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2887\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/files\/2014\/06\/firewall.png\" alt=\"Dialog box showing the firewall off by default\" width=\"1346\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/files\/2014\/06\/firewall.png 1346w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/files\/2014\/06\/firewall-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/files\/2014\/06\/firewall-1024x419.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1346px) 100vw, 1346px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the firewall is off by default. It was off by default on my previous MacBook Pro too. (I have a short file describing the steps I took when migrating to the old laptop, and &#8220;Security &amp; Privacy: turn on firewall(!)&#8221; was one.)<\/p>\n<p>My wife bought a MacBook Air a couple of months and I just checked and the firewall is disabled on it, too.<\/p>\n<p>I admit I am not a world-class expert on matters of network security. Is this totally insane and negligent, or is there something I&#8217;m missing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a new MacBook Pro. It&#8217;s the fifth one I&#8217;ve had since 2005, and as usual the hardware is gorgeous, and migrating from the old laptop was a breeze. But there&#8217;s one thing that boggles my mind about the default system configuration&#8230; &#8230;the firewall is off by default. It was off by default [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}