fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home
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Corpus of data automatically shared with Apple by a standard installation of OS X Yosemite.
7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2014-10-20 · latest 2022-11-21
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…a great analysis of all the snooping Apple did on Yosemite with all privacy features enabled ( https://github.com/fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home ) - More various articles ( https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/05/new-guidelines-outli... ),…
comment by anonym29 · 2022-11-21 · in Briar: Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging -
…Apple. Most of this is complaining about telemetry, which is a valid thing to be concerned about. https://github.com/fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home
comment by kick · 2019-12-06 · in Spyware in macOS -
Not OP, but back when Yosemite came out, there was a lot of buzz about privacy issues, such as: https://github.com/fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/mac-o... Don't know what came out of…
comment by starsinspace · 2018-03-25 · in Tim Cook says Facebook's collection of user data 'shouldn't exist' -
…collects data deceptively don't they[0]? Seems like a case of the pot calling the kettle black. [0] https://github.com/fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home/
comment by brazzledazzle · 2015-06-03 · in Apple’s Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech on Encryption, Privacy -
The really interesting part is linked: https://github.com/fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home/blob/maste... Yosemite seems to send an identifying cookie that is also used when surfing the Apple website with Safari when "About this Mac" is…
comment by quonn · 2014-10-23 · in Fix OS X Yosemite -
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Apple is listening (Yosemite)story by tonteldoos · 2014-10-21 · 1 comment
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Corpus of network communications automatically sent to Apple by Yosemitestory by haywardsmyfault · 2014-10-20 · 104 comments