macgeekery.com— Exactly how 10.4.7's widget authenticity feature works. "You've actually given away less information to Apple than you would when directly visiting the Apple webpage."
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I'm just really sick of this story. And, some people just keep posting it on Digg thinking they're the first on top of breaking news. So many dupes and so much fuss over what is essentially being blown way out of proportion.Yeah, fine, I don't like the idea of my info being harvested. But then it was explained (several days ago, if not at least a week) that it's all harmless. Good, ok. Anyone who is still bugged over this should really calm down.Apple isn't harvesting info to use against us, it's keeping software up to date. Hell, I wish more apps would do this, it'd save me time. I think anyone else is being paranoid. If this as some form of Gator spyware sending my spending habits, coordinates and credit card number, then yeah, I'd be infuriated, but it's not.I haven't bothered to check if there's a way to disable this "phoning home", but if there is, everyone stop complaining and just switch it off. If there isn't, then stop bitching here and request Apple do something about it, I'm pretty sure they will.And for all the Windows users out there who are gleefully trying to make OSX look inferior, just wait until Vista, I'm sure you'll have plenty of problems to point out with that lovely piece of software... =P
Bravo UnnDunn you fell in the trap set by Microsoft ,and now you're just repeating their FUD.Why do you think MS separated WGA into two distinct modules? WGA Notification and WGA Validation... People only remember WGA... The bad press was about WGA as a whole, but Microsoft can say "WGA Notification doesn't phone home" without explaining anything about the other WGA Validation part and people will believe that it applies to WGA as a whole. Most people don't know that there's another part to WGA so they don't care about the Notification part, thinking it's the full name of the whole thing.And you did the exact same thing...Tell me, how WGA (the whole enchilada) verifies your XP serial number without phoning home? Does it download the whole list of possible/usable XP serial numbers inside your computer then checks your serial number against that list?Very "clever" MS... Take an "evil" program, chop a benign part of it and make it a separate program that communicates with the first, make both programs have names that only appear different to Windows savvy people, and judges. That way they can talk about the benign program as benign, and people will think it's the whole process they are talking about... Very "smart"... FUD
What they should have done is tell you what was in the new update, and given you the option, somewhere, to turn it off. It's much less intrusive than that ministore thing they put into iTunes a while back. But you can turn that off. But it's certainly nothing like WGA.
chicagodude2006Jul 10, 2006
Uggh... are you serious charsonmatter?
lawrencedudleyJul 10, 2006
You, dear sir, are a f**king idiot
archieandrewsJul 10, 2006
All Mac users generalize. All of them.
contradictatorJul 11, 2006
I'm just really sick of this story. And, some people just keep posting it on Digg thinking they're the first on top of breaking news. So many dupes and so much fuss over what is essentially being blown way out of proportion.Yeah, fine, I don't like the idea of my info being harvested. But then it was explained (several days ago, if not at least a week) that it's all harmless. Good, ok. Anyone who is still bugged over this should really calm down.Apple isn't harvesting info to use against us, it's keeping software up to date. Hell, I wish more apps would do this, it'd save me time. I think anyone else is being paranoid. If this as some form of Gator spyware sending my spending habits, coordinates and credit card number, then yeah, I'd be infuriated, but it's not.I haven't bothered to check if there's a way to disable this "phoning home", but if there is, everyone stop complaining and just switch it off. If there isn't, then stop bitching here and request Apple do something about it, I'm pretty sure they will.And for all the Windows users out there who are gleefully trying to make OSX look inferior, just wait until Vista, I'm sure you'll have plenty of problems to point out with that lovely piece of software... =P
delmonteJul 11, 2006
Dashboard is not E.T.? I'm confused...
delmonteJul 11, 2006
Bravo UnnDunn you fell in the trap set by Microsoft ,and now you're just repeating their FUD.Why do you think MS separated WGA into two distinct modules? WGA Notification and WGA Validation... People only remember WGA... The bad press was about WGA as a whole, but Microsoft can say "WGA Notification doesn't phone home" without explaining anything about the other WGA Validation part and people will believe that it applies to WGA as a whole. Most people don't know that there's another part to WGA so they don't care about the Notification part, thinking it's the full name of the whole thing.And you did the exact same thing...Tell me, how WGA (the whole enchilada) verifies your XP serial number without phoning home? Does it download the whole list of possible/usable XP serial numbers inside your computer then checks your serial number against that list?Very "clever" MS... Take an "evil" program, chop a benign part of it and make it a separate program that communicates with the first, make both programs have names that only appear different to Windows savvy people, and judges. That way they can talk about the benign program as benign, and people will think it's the whole process they are talking about... Very "smart"... FUD
swift2Jul 12, 2006
What they should have done is tell you what was in the new update, and given you the option, somewhere, to turn it off. It's much less intrusive than that ministore thing they put into iTunes a while back. But you can turn that off. But it's certainly nothing like WGA.