Comment by hungryforcodes
4 years ago
No, I don’t think you should just dismiss the privacy issue. It seems every time I launch an app, MacOS tells Apple. That’s also a REAL problem — and I guess I won’t be buying a Mac again unless the feature can be turned off.
Not every time, just the first time an untrusted app wants to run. And there is no information in it but a hash.
Not in this case. This particular thread is about any app that was not an Apple app having problems launching, regardless of how many times have been launched before. It has revealed that actually every opening of any application phones home.
Apple has the db of apps matching the hash.
What you said is like saying nothing except a social security number is used to identify you, as if that wasn't linked to the rest of the info about you.
I’m not dismissing it, just pointing out that it’s completely ancillary to a bug that causes programs to crash.
I like this piece to summarize situation:
https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/