Supposedly, there is a way. You can just remove all the apps from the whitelist. After that apps like Little Snitch pickup on the activity. Hosts file I believe still works as well but I haven't seen anyone who's tried it out yet and posted about it. One caveat is that you probably have to monitor the whitelist to make sure nothing gets added to/back without you knowing about it.
Not sure how well any of that works though. I'm not touching Big Sur or the new macs with a 10' pole until all the software that I rely on is updated to not require kexts 100% (including Little Snitch full support) and Apple silicon has virtualization support so I can run Docker.
I'm really glad I just upgraded to the latest intel mbp a few months ago.
Yes according to this [1] there is a way to remove the whitelist entries. It doesn‘t seem practical and it‘s a big turn off for me. I was thinking about switching to an ARM Mac when the second or third generation comes out, depending on how they perform. But now I‘m thinking I probably won‘t switch. Especially with things like this and how stuff like this is enforced on other platforms.
How can I know that the option to edit the whitelist won‘t be removed as fast as the default entries were added to the whitelist?
And requires that you disable system integrity protection, which opens you up to other threats as well as bugs that can prevent you from being able to boot at all:
Not sure how well any of that works though. I'm not touching Big Sur or the new macs with a 10' pole until all the software that I rely on is updated to not require kexts 100% (including Little Snitch full support) and Apple silicon has virtualization support so I can run Docker.
I'm really glad I just upgraded to the latest intel mbp a few months ago.