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Spyware in macOS

50 points by rahuldottech 7y ago

futurix 7y ago
Paranoid scaremongering.
- johndubchak 7y ago
  The purpose of which is?
  - warkdarrior 7y ago
    To drive users to use GNU tools and systems.
    - oefrha 7y ago
      If only Hurd were usable.
    - iudqnolq 7y ago
      I almost believe that, except the part where an intelligent person believes they can convince a number of macOS users to switch to GNU. Surely empirically they've realized this kind of FUD doesn't work if you're not powerful like Microsoft?
bdcravens 7y ago
Aren't most of the links related to iCloud? The service people use to store and sync their files? Next thing you know they'll be telling us Google is secretly storing our files when we use Drive.
- kick 7y ago
  > without asking permission. > Apple admits the spying in a search facility, but there's a lot more snooping that Apple has not talked about. > Various operations in the latest MacOS send reports to Apple servers. >Spotlight search sends users' search terms to 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 https://github.com/fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home
moscovium 7y ago
Every article is over 5 years old, and some of them imply the problem is with MacOS, then link to issues with iPhones. Come back with real data.
Kipters 7y ago
I accept being downvoted to death for saying this, but everytime I see gnu.org (or anything RMS related) I can't help but roll my eyes and start with a huge dose of prejudice about what I'm about to read
- FussyZeus 7y ago
  Don't forget the ever present hatred seemingly everyone who doesn't own Apple products or has any desire to own Apple products has for Apple and every product they make.
- kick 7y ago
  News Guidelines: Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - jrs95 7y ago
    They should add something about quoting the guidelines to this, because it's infinitely more annoying
  - Kipters 7y ago
    I wasn't commenting voting, I mentioned voting.
mdszy 7y ago
Not easy to take it seriously when they say things like "iThing" and "Big Brother".

Spyware in macOS

50 points by rahuldottech 7y ago

futurix 7y ago

Paranoid scaremongering.

johndubchak 7y ago
The purpose of which is?
- warkdarrior 7y ago
  To drive users to use GNU tools and systems.
  - oefrha 7y ago
    If only Hurd were usable.
  - iudqnolq 7y ago
    I almost believe that, except the part where an intelligent person believes they can convince a number of macOS users to switch to GNU. Surely empirically they've realized this kind of FUD doesn't work if you're not powerful like Microsoft?

bdcravens 7y ago

Aren't most of the links related to iCloud? The service people use to store and sync their files? Next thing you know they'll be telling us Google is secretly storing our files when we use Drive.

kick 7y ago
> without asking permission. > Apple admits the spying in a search facility, but there's a lot more snooping that Apple has not talked about. > Various operations in the latest MacOS send reports to Apple servers. >Spotlight search sends users' search terms to 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 https://github.com/fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home

moscovium 7y ago

Every article is over 5 years old, and some of them imply the problem is with MacOS, then link to issues with iPhones. Come back with real data.

Kipters 7y ago

I accept being downvoted to death for saying this, but everytime I see gnu.org (or anything RMS related) I can't help but roll my eyes and start with a huge dose of prejudice about what I'm about to read

FussyZeus 7y ago
Don't forget the ever present hatred seemingly everyone who doesn't own Apple products or has any desire to own Apple products has for Apple and every product they make.
kick 7y ago
News Guidelines: Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- jrs95 7y ago
  They should add something about quoting the guidelines to this, because it's infinitely more annoying
- Kipters 7y ago
  I wasn't commenting voting, I mentioned voting.

mdszy 7y ago

Not easy to take it seriously when they say things like "iThing" and "Big Brother".