Re:Apple Stealing All FaceTime Information, AT&T Locks Users...
by astrange on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @04:57PM
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> That seems pretty bad.
It's required so you can map phone numbers to the other person's IP address. I assume it's also used for STUN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN).
(This is just me guessing, of course, but the "don't automatically assume a huge conspiracy theory" method almost always ends up with me being right, so there.)
Re:Apple Stealing All FaceTime Information, AT&T Locks Users...
by madair on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @11:54PM
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I wasn't thinking so much conspiracy theory...just marketing overreach, I didn't think there's possibly a technical explanation that holds water, interesting.
It's required so you can map phone numbers to the other person's IP address. I assume it's also used for STUN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN).
(This is just me guessing, of course, but the "don't automatically assume a huge conspiracy theory" method almost always ends up with me being right, so there.)