Comment by DetectDefect
1 month ago
Until we see the source code (or at least a man page) that is an unverified claim and the process should be treated like malware:
while : ; do pkill -9 dasd ; sleep 10 ; done
The tasks it "schedules" must be very low-priority, because nothing breaks when dasd doesn't run.
That's...what background processes do? They're supposed to run occasionally and be resilient to disruption.
But if you wanna be afraid of boring ordinary things, you go right ahead.
Even excusing that daemon, here is a list of processes which have attempted to contact Apple in the past 24 hours, according to Little Snitch. I am certain this is not even a complete list, because macOS is closed source and likely can bypass application firewalls altogether:
Again, I have never used iCloud/Apple services, turned off all available telemetry options and did not open any Apple applications while all this took place (I only use Firefox and iTerm). Almost all of these processes lack a man page, or if they have one, it's one-line nonsense which explains nothing. This is beyond unprofessional.