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Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by caddywompus on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @08:54AM (#25430275)
It's odd though, they have these contradictory actions. For the iPhone, they are pushing for privacy, but on MacOS, we are now dealing with things like excessive telemetry to the point of phoning a authorization server for running local binaries. Not to mention the new firewall issues, where Apple utilities are able to bypass local firewall rules.
Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by zepto on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:19PM (#25433144)
Surely you know this ‘telemetry’ statement isn’t really true. They use badly designed open protocol to do certificate revocation. It’s not like they designed this as a way to collect user data.
Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by caddywompus on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:48PM (#25433508)
Perhaps they don't intend to use the data as telemetry, but regardless, intentionally or not, they are receiving information about what you are running, even if it were just a hash of the binary. So you're right, it would be a trivially small information leak, but I'd like to think a company focused on privacy wouldn't resort to such an aggressive protocol.

I haven't followed this very closely, has anyone determined exactly what is being sent?