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Second Little Snitch. > NOTE: Corporate IT departments no likee Little Snitch.
Do you have a story to tell us?
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How do you think push should work? Any push service works this way. The client contacts the server to be updated. The server gives a no data or a data response. The server cannot magically contact the client.
What do you think the word "push" means in the word "push"? It doesn't mean "pull", btw.
Little Snitch can detect and block connections at the process level. https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
And as much as you can use little snitch for programs you install, these days it seems an endless whack-a-mole to block Apple's stuff as there's so many requests all the time. The more time goes by, the more it seems that the concept of "personal" computer is gone: there's nothing "personal" about it anymore, it's the computer plus an amorphous blob of online services one has no control over.
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Microsoft put ads in their OS menus. Kindof a stretch to "both sides" this one.
No it isn't. The context is telemetry and spying, not built in advertising.
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But at least they have E2E encryption. The whole point of which is not having the key to.
The whole point is that a 3rd party (Apple) doesn’t have the key. It’s not real E2E and it’s still susceptible to government overreach.
Polling domains when attached to the network like this doesnt suprise me in the least. Apple's ecosystem has often been praised for its tight integration, and this consistent network connectivity is the result. Anybody who has worked with large scale services that rely on messaging services to ensure people get timely notifications and data, knows that you need services which are continuously polling endpoints to che…
> Polling domains when attached to the network Apple devices do communicate over BT even when you explicitly turn it off and put your device in flight mode.
Vendor lock in and tracking is all part of the Apple experience.