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seems like the ticket author found this by reading code (presumably was grepping for duckduckgo.com URLs) this would never happen with a consumer-facing produc
by awinter-py 6y ago
seems like the ticket author found this by reading code (presumably was grepping for duckduckgo.com URLs)
this would never happen with a consumer-facing product from apple or google; someone would have to MITM their whole OS to discover phone-home
- LeoNatan25 6y agoIt actually happens very often. People monitor their networks often, and pay close attention to such problems. Just search for “Apple phone home” and you’ll find many cases where people complain about Apple’s various services making worrying requests.
- awinter-py 6y agoright sorry -- didn't mean to say that they'd never get caught, rather that you can't read source