
Exadra37
Your Mac Isn't Yours - worse, it spies on you and sends it home unencrypted
On modern versions of macOS, you simply can’t power on your computer, launch a text editor or eBook reader, and write or read, without a log of your activity being transmitted and stored.
This means that Apple knows when you’re at home. When you’re at work. What apps you open there, and how often. They know when you open Premiere over at a friend’s house on their Wi-Fi, and they know when you open Tor Browser in a hotel on a trip to another city.
Well, it’s not just Apple. This information doesn’t stay with them:
- These OCSP requests are transmitted unencrypted. Everyone who can see the network can see these, including your ISP and anyone who has tapped their cables.
- These requests go to a third-party CDN run by another company, Akamai.
- Since October of 2012, Apple is a partner in the US military intelligence community’s PRISM spying program, which grants the US federal police and military unfettered access to this data without a warrant, any time they ask for it. In the first half of 2019 they did this over 18,000 times, and another 17,500+ times in the second half of 2019.
Your computer now serves a remote master, who has decided that they are entitled to spy on you. If you’ve the most efficient high-res laptop in the world, you can’t turn this off.
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TL;DR
- No, macOS does not send Apple a hash of your apps each time you run them.
- You should be aware that macOS might transmit some opaque information about the developer certificate of the apps you run. This information is sent out in clear text on your network.
- You shouldn’t probably block
ocsp.apple.com
with Little Snitch or in your hosts file.
https://blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple-ocsp/
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Carter
So Apple’s “secure enclave” and “the most secure personal computer in the world” and all the other marketing BS doesn’t mean then!!

AstonJ
I always have a little doubt Paulo
For now I have blocked trustd
in LittleSnitch are there any other steps people are recommending?
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