blog.wired.com — With the recently released maintence update Mac OS 10.4.7, the company has added a background daemon that reports information about your computer to Apple every time you launch the Dashboard. Don't want it? Turn it off!
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devindotcomJul 5, 2006
So you're saying the action isn't what's important, it's who is doing it?That's pretty sad!
wasternJul 5, 2006
we aren't talking about Sever here. what's your point
brandonhinesJul 5, 2006
And this is on Wired no less? With a typo that hasn't been fixed, yet the author has returned to comment!? Oh, Wired. How could you.
Closed AccountJul 5, 2006
You can also disable Dashboard completely, if you don't really use it. In terminal:defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YESkillall DockAfter that you can drag it out of the dock, and it won't eat up system resources.to turn it back on:defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NOkillall Dock
ipodman715Jul 7, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/security/OS_X_10.4.7_Phones_Home">http://digg.com/security/OS_X_10.4.7_Phones_Home</a>
bimmerboyJul 7, 2006
Here's what Little Snitch told me...The application "dashboardadvisoryd" wants to connect to www.apple.com on TCP port 80 (http)