XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: jollyroger@pobox.com   
      
   On 2024-07-30, Alan  wrote:   
   > On 2024-07-29 17:10, Chips Loral wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Bullshit.   
   >   
   > That discusses a system that Apple disabled.   
      
   A proposal that was never implemented and was shelved.   
      
   > And doesn't support your first source AT ALL.   
   >   
   > 'Mysk:   
   >   
   > No, macOS doesn’t send info about your local photos to Apple We   
   > analyzed mediaanalysisd after an extraordinary claim by Jeffrey Paul   
   > that it scans local photos and secretly sends the results to an Apple   
   > server.   
   >   
   > […]   
   >   
   > We analyzed the network traffic sent and received by mediaanalysisd.   
   > Well, the call is literally empty. We decrypted it. No headers, no   
   > IDs, nothing. Just a simple GET request to this endpoint that returns   
   > nothing. Honestly, it looks like it is a bug.   
   >   
   > Mysk:   
   >   
   > The issue was indeed a bug and it has been fixed in macOS 13.2. The   
   > process no longer makes calls to Apple servers.'   
   >   
   >   
      
   Yup. I've had Little Snitch installed on this Mac Studio since I bought   
   it, and the Little Snitch Network Monitor has no record of that process   
   ever connecting to the internet.   
      
   Chips Loral is either extremely gullible or a simple troll. Either way,   
   it's clear he's not interested in factual discourse on this subject.   
      
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