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Mac OS X "Phones" Home Too


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So what's the difference between a phone home feature and an application feature?

 

Where else is it suppose to get the currency and weather info from? And do any other auto installed app from Apple ask you if it can check for a new version? I can understand if the it phones home with no purpose other than to gather data about your IP address and user info only you and Apple knows about. But crying wolf over widgets that's been talked about since 10.4.3 is pathetic. If the person's "not even sure what benefit" shouldn't be bitching about it.

 

If you really want to know what's being passed though, run the data through a packet sniffer and decode it. Very basic and would also tell us something new. Not something we have already discussed months ago. You want to keep the Dashboard from "calling home"? Don't connect to the Internet during install and immediately turn off the dashboard and Software Update in Pref Pane after install. While you're at it, don't use Mail, Safari, iTunes, Calculator, QT, System Preferences, Sherlock, and who knows what other sub-system feature Apple uses to connect to its servers.

 

There is nothing to whine about unless you can prove that it's intent is malicious. Hell, even Linux Distro calls home. What makes OS X any different?

 

This is nothing new. Certainly not to 10.4.7...

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There is nothing to whine about unless you can prove that it's intent is malicious. Hell, even Linux Distro calls home. What makes OS X any different?

 

Because Windows has gotten people so insecure about this {censored} that they whine about phoning home all the time?

 

Because people are so scared because they've stolen so much software that they seriously can't afford even one thing calling home now?

 

The reasons can be staggering sometimes

 

btw, it's already been taken care of

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I don't know if this has anything to do with phoning home, but all of the sudden, my weather widget freaked out. See for yourself.

 

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It could be a bug with Accu-Weather. You can see it yourself. Flip the widget over and type in "Dayton, NJ" without the quotes.

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some times contating the munufacturer ervers isn't harmful, and is a feature, for example to check the the wether, your computer won't just guess, it will connect a server, as for time, and so on. for example nobody says that is absolutely terrible that windows checks the time by default on a Microsoft server. People DO find very bad the whole genuine advantage thing.

 

If you are so paranoid that you can't have OS X checking anything reasonable on a apple server, you might as well break all , and you wouldn't have weather checks, currency conversion rates, system update, ITMS, watching trailers from front row, cant download anything form apple's site, in fact you shouldn't even visit it, or even see apple ads on the web.

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