On Friday I wrote about Apple computers telling Apple abouit programs you run. A reader writes "you've over-inflated what actually happened here." This article appears to confirm the 'phone home' aspect of Apple, but says the author was wrong in some of the details, eg. It doesn't send a message every time, just some of the time, and it sends a developer hash, not a program hash. The bug, an issue with the fail open works, was noted in the original article. These are fair enough criticisms, though of course I don't know how to verify one way or another. But I think I still agree with the tenor of the original article, even if the criticisms are accurate. But of course there's no reason you should agree with me, and so I link to this article and also the privacy protections section on the Apple Support page, which the reader also sent me. Image: Little Snitch.
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