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I have Little Snitch, and there aren't any. Do you just assume this to be the case?

by dmd 9y ago

vetinari 9y ago
Some people assume, some have look into the logs. Maybe you should have a look what LS logs for you too. For example: http://imgur.com/a/tBDrt http://imgur.com/a/tBDrt These are pre-login connections, and with the exception of Flux and Citrix Receiver, all the processes belongs to Apple. Why do they have to connect at all?
- sedev 9y ago
  • akd is the AuthKit daemon, which among other things authenticates you to the App Store and to iCloud. • captiveagent detects when you're on a captive-portal network, it does this by checking for known-content domains apple controls • helpd is the daemon that connects to Apple's online help docs • locationd powers location services And so on. These are all easy to google. Come _on._ >:[
  - vetinari 9y ago
    Really, easy to google? With "quality" answers, like these, full of guesses? > Does anyone know what the nbagent process is? > ... > It appears to be something related to Software Update and/or the Mac App Store, so allowing it seems safe. I'd speculate that it showed up in the latest OS X update since I'd never seen it before today either, and the first google hits seem to appear only very recently. Sorry, while honest good effort, that's not acceptable answer. And that's before we start investigating processes that do connect AFTER login - what the heck is "systemmigrationd"? (try googling that). Sorry, but macOS regarding privacy is almost as bad, as Windows. It has many processes that connect somewhere, it is uncertain what these processes do, etc. How can someone even audit that? Compare to CentOS/Fedora, where the only hit to internet during pre-login is either DNS or your configuration and all the other hits are user-initiated (except browsers, which do update their certification revocation list, unsafe-urls list, etc).
carterehsmith 9y ago
>> I have Little Snitch, and there aren't any. Do you just assume this to be the case? So how does an Apple computer manage to do the following, without contacting Apple servers: iCloud, iMessage, Apple software updates, Apple store?
- dmd 9y ago
  Those are Apple services. Of course they require it. But non Apple connections don't get reported to Apple, unlike on some other OSes.

I have Little Snitch, and there aren't any. Do you just assume this to be the case?

by dmd 9y ago

I have Little Snitch, and there aren't any. Do you just assume this to be the case?

Some people assume, some have look into the logs. Maybe you should have a look what LS logs for you too. For example: http://imgur.com/a/tBDrt http://imgur.com/a/tBDrt These are pre-login connections, and with the exception of Flux and Citrix Receiver, all the processes belongs to Apple. Why do they have to connect at all?

sedev 9y ago
• akd is the AuthKit daemon, which among other things authenticates you to the App Store and to iCloud. • captiveagent detects when you're on a captive-portal network, it does this by checking for known-content domains apple controls • helpd is the daemon that connects to Apple's online help docs • locationd powers location services And so on. These are all easy to google. Come _on._ >:[
- vetinari 9y ago
  Really, easy to google? With "quality" answers, like these, full of guesses? > Does anyone know what the nbagent process is? > ... > It appears to be something related to Software Update and/or the Mac App Store, so allowing it seems safe. I'd speculate that it showed up in the latest OS X update since I'd never seen it before today either, and the first google hits seem to appear only very recently. Sorry, while honest good effort, that's not acceptable answer. And that's before we start investigating processes that do connect AFTER login - what the heck is "systemmigrationd"? (try googling that). Sorry, but macOS regarding privacy is almost as bad, as Windows. It has many processes that connect somewhere, it is uncertain what these processes do, etc. How can someone even audit that? Compare to CentOS/Fedora, where the only hit to internet during pre-login is either DNS or your configuration and all the other hits are user-initiated (except browsers, which do update their certification revocation list, unsafe-urls list, etc).

carterehsmith 9y ago

>> I have Little Snitch, and there aren't any. Do you just assume this to be the case? So how does an Apple computer manage to do the following, without contacting Apple servers: iCloud, iMessage, Apple software updates, Apple store?

dmd 9y ago
Those are Apple services. Of course they require it. But non Apple connections don't get reported to Apple, unlike on some other OSes.