tidalpassion Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I happened to be playing around with the OS X Sharing panel, specifically the logging in the firewall options. I brought up the firewall log, and saw the console log open in another window. To my surprise, it indicated that the system (JAS patched 10.4.6), was reporting crashes to Apple, even when I did NOT opt to do it with the dialog that pops up after a crash. Here is a sanitized version of the log entry: (date time machine name) crashdump[260xx]: VLC crashed (date time machine name) crashdump[260xx]: crash report written to: /Users/(user name)/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/VLC.crash.log (date time machine name) Crash Reporter[260xy]: Your crash report is being automatically submitted! You can disable auto-submit using this shell command:\ndefaults write com.apple.CrashReporter AutoSubmit NO (date time machine name) Crash Reporter[260xy]: For quality control purposes auto-submit is enabled by default for Apple internal users. Apple employees should still file RADARs for bug tracking purposes. (date time machine name) Crash Reporter[260xy]: Collecting system configuration... (date time machine name) Crash Reporter[260xy]: Sending... (date time machine name) Crash Reporter[260xy]: GetMACAddress (date time machine name) Crash Reporter[260xy]: Auto-submission succeeded! It's obvious there is some developer code active in JAS 10.4.6 makes the machine look like an employee version. 1) Is this still happening in 10.4.8? 2) I got an "unknown command" in terminal when pasting in "\ndefaults write com.apple.CrashReporter AutoSubmit NO". What am I doing wrong? I really don't want to be bothering Apple. (The MAC address is what amounts to a serial number of the ethernet card (or other interface), the first half of which identifies the vendor) I guess Apple has a very good idea how many hackintoshes are online. The crash that brought this on was one that seems to have appeared in recent .86a or thereabouts versions of VLC (the video player). After going into full-screen mode, a new popup controller appears when moves the mouse. Fairly often after playing with that VLC quits unexpectedly bringing up the crash reporter dialog. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44522-security-issue-frankenmacs-calling-home/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Remove the \n from the command and it should work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44522-security-issue-frankenmacs-calling-home/#findComment-318672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
insmac Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 (edited) The crash that brought this on was one that seems to have appeared in recent .86a or thereabouts versions of VLC (the video player). After going into full-screen mode, a new popup controller appears when moves the mouse. Fairly often after playing with that VLC quits unexpectedly bringing up the crash reporter dialog. Fullscreen OSD controller is unstable. From what I've heard most crashes are trigerred either by that thing or switching between full screen and windowed mode. I've experienced the first error a few times. Edited March 7, 2007 by insmac Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44522-security-issue-frankenmacs-calling-home/#findComment-318723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tidalpassion Posted March 7, 2007 Author Share Posted March 7, 2007 Thanks DaxTsurugi, removing the "/n" did the trick. It's probably a good idea for everyone to paste this string (between quotes, followed by enter) into Terminal: "defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter AutoSubmit NO" It worked for me from a standard administrator account. No confirmation is given, but if no error message is returned it is safe to say it worked. (I got VLC to crash again and confirmed the change in the console.log entry. It's much harder to get a crash when trying. It seems VLC is more stable when the VM swap file is small) Note that this post isn't about VLC, its about not bothering Apple every time you have a crash with info on bugs that may very well already be fixed or don't exist in current Apple hardware/software, as well as where you are (IP Address) and what hardware (brand of interface at least from MAC address) and what software is running (from system configuration). Perhaps your home folder (seen in some pathnames) or machine network name includes your name too? The MAC (Media Access Control) hex address that gets sent back to Apple is a unique identifier of the network interface (ethernet and wifi both use these), the first half of which indicates the vendor, the second half is effectively a serial number. The vendor can be looked up in the listing at http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt It's less interesting for those using PCI ethernet cards since it'll usually show the name of an Asian chipset vendor, but in the case of major vendors with bundled or on-board network interfaces, it'll usually identify them directly. For example: 00 17 F2 is one of those used by Apple 00 12 3F is one of those used by Dell The System Profiler has the Mac Address of the active ethernet interface in the info listing under "network" The Network preferences panel has info also: Show: Airport, click Airport button read Airport ID or Show: Built-in Ethernet, click ethernet button, read Ethernet ID Show can also list other any other working ethernet interfaces present I am still curious if the other patched versions of OS X behave the same way as JAS 10.4.6 (also need AutoSubmit disabled). Hopefully future versions can have this issue already dealt with or at least include a text file detailing this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44522-security-issue-frankenmacs-calling-home/#findComment-318835 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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