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Would not packet sniffers have told us by now that Apple was transmitting more data than users expect, if that were the case?
by glhaynes 17y ago
Would not packet sniffers have told us by now that Apple was transmitting more data than users expect, if that were the case?
- haberman 17y agoMaybe, maybe not. What if Mail.app is programmed only to turn on this back door in certain circumstances? Only a very small percentage of people would ever think to packet sniff all the data their computer is sending. If this privacy-invading mode could be turned on by, say, sending a very specific spam-looking message to Mail.app, you could use this capability only when needed and be almost guaranteed that the target user is not running a packet sniffer. Also, how are you going to packet sniff what your iPhone is sending over 3G?