Apple reporting every app you are using to their servers, unencrypted, and preventing you from stopping it. https://t.co/UH2vlvIRfS

— Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) (@avsa) November 13, 2020

This is what a global single point of failure looks like. Please avoid them when designing systems. https://t.co/fsQgT3yBrx

— Nick Craver (@Nick_Craver) November 13, 2020

Very important read for Mac users! h/t @lightcoin https://t.co/UuM5TU0z2d

— Chris Blec (@ChrisBlec) November 13, 2020

Privacy Is Apple. Unless, you know, you want some actual privacy, like, from Apple. You can’t get that why would you want that?https://t.co/nAqxMpFLfr

— Robin Berjon (@robinberjon) November 13, 2020

Well, this is... quite scary. And bad. And creepy. I didn't realize this was a thing, or that iOS/iPadOS (apparently) do the same thing. https://t.co/BwkJwM3tPS

— Alex Hall? (@mehgcap) November 13, 2020

Shit like this is also just compounded when you embrace the notion of privacy as publicly as Apple has. Which is one of the things I really like about Apple! But you gotta stay congruent. These statements are not compatible with a phone-home scheme on every app launch. pic.twitter.com/6cZCSJCc8c

— DHH (@dhh) November 13, 2020

Hmm Apple's privacy story has been… not terrible.

— Tim Bray (@timbray) November 14, 2020

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Even more interesting are the exceptions for system level processes which make firewalling/filtering this traffic difficult@charlesarthur @SteveBellovin @stevesi https://t.co/oNcM0BrEhB

— Adewale Adetugbo (@aadetugbo) November 13, 2020

Sensationalist article aside there’s some serious issues going on there. Apple designed things with a single point of failure and broke every Mac out there. It’s likely that a bad actor/state could take advantage of this and DDOS a large number of Macs in the future.

— Paul Haddad (@tapbot_paul) November 14, 2020

I am currently unable to work because macOS sends hashes of every opened executable to some server of theirs and when `trustd` and `syspolicyd` are unable to do so, the entire operating system grinds to a halt.

I'm typing this from my phone since the Mac is effectively frozen. pic.twitter.com/dWrjyuiXpQ

— Łukasz Langa ⚡️ (@llanga) November 12, 2020

Dear @tim_cook,

“It turns out that in the current version of the macOS, the OS sends to Apple a hash (unique identifier) of each and every program you run, when you run it.”

Is this true?

If so, how can you say you believe “privacy is a human right?”https://t.co/knzTWrlZNS

— Aral Balkan ? (@aral@mastodon.ar.al) (@aral) November 13, 2020

“This means that Apple knows when you’re at home. When you’re at work. What apps you open there, and how often. They know when you open Premiere over at a friend’s house on their Wi-Fi, and they know when you open Tor Browser in a hotel.” ? https://t.co/bScBsbSwiH

— DHH (@dhh) November 13, 2020

Anyway, here I go again, reading noble intentions into a bullying monopolistic conglomerate that also happens to be the most valuable company in the world. This is the residue of two decades of goodwill built. They’re spending it at a ferocious rate though!

— DHH (@dhh) November 13, 2020

Tim Millet, VP of Platform Architecture at Apple (silicon team):

« now we have a place where people can tinker, and play, and really get access to the bare metal and do interesting things with the platform. »

(part of the interview at https://t.co/qKmwEp95Hu about arm64 macs)

— Longhorn (@never_released) November 13, 2020

Seriously, is this true?! https://t.co/7dQvlHQSVC

— Tim Bray (@timbray) November 13, 2020

Cory @doctorow tried to warn us. They know every app we run, every time, and where we run it from. Ugh. https://t.co/LcpWBlEbPs

— Mitch Kapor (@mkapor) November 14, 2020

Apple is late to rendering its actions and intentions through the lens of a two-trillion dollar conglomerate with a proven record of using its systems and dominance for anti-competitive behavior. You can’t simply go on good intentions any more! Don’t think Apple employees realize

— DHH (@dhh) November 13, 2020

Worth noting the technical reason here. I don’t think Apple is gathering this data because they want to sell it to advertisers (like a Google or Facebook would). Completely believe that the creators of this system thought they were doing right by users. But that’s the conceit...

— DHH (@dhh) November 13, 2020

This seems right to me: by checking every binary launched on macOS with OCSP, Apple has implemented full surveillance of what's going on with your computer, and it lets them track popular apps/etc.

Not at all consistent with their privacy guarantees. https://t.co/WpFrooazAi

— Michael Herf (@herf) November 13, 2020

Extremely concerning privacy situation with the new Apple operating system https://t.co/SWTyLUdkjq this is extremely bad

— Vinay Gupta (@leashless) November 13, 2020

TL;DR after the next macOS update, not even Little Snitch will be able to save us from Apple phoning home when, where, and what applications we use on our privately owned computers

But don’t worry, they insist they are the “privacy-focused” tech companyhttps://t.co/4zKB2HH2XS

— lucy (@pentothalic) November 13, 2020

Appleはあなたが眠っているときを知っています...そしてあなたが起きているときを報告しますhttps://t.co/bXHxCp4iVD

— コイン海外速報 -仮想通貨ニュース- (@CoinNewsFlash) November 14, 2020

Worth a read: Jeffrey Paul: Your Computer Isn't Yours https://t.co/8rXiC1QTSA

— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) November 14, 2020

So THIS is what happened on my work laptop on Thursday?! The keyboard/trackpad even stopped working for a good half-minute.https://t.co/p2OweTjuov

— jell ? (@joshuaelliott) November 14, 2020

Decent read on Apple's screw up yesterday and it's implications https://t.co/T0iM0U3eWM

— Jason Wilson (@jason_a_w) November 13, 2020

Guys it's not that hard to run Linux on your laptop nowadays and you don't need to deal with this stuff. https://t.co/XZZQeFjmQI

— Jeff Vandroux ? ? ? ? ? ? (@vandrewattycpa) November 14, 2020

So maybe this won’t surprise you but the new Macs will track everything you do and where you do it.https://t.co/blLDicSSMa

— sentient 6 (@sentientsixp) November 14, 2020

Well this is disturbing. I've always defended @Apple as being one of the only tech firms with an actual interest in maintaining user privacyhttps://t.co/U7IloC2BTW

— Charles Lowell (@cowboyd) November 13, 2020

If you care about your privacy, and you're using macOS, you might have a serious reasons to worry.

Your Computer Isn't Yours - https://t.co/HsOcB32Jgj

My advice: Just move to Linux. It's about time.

— ?????? (@jovica) November 14, 2020

Big jump of the Apple needle toward the evil side of the scale: https://t.co/u9pszM08w7

— Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor) November 14, 2020

Think Apple cares about your privacy?

Every time you open an app, your computer sends Apple (unencrypted) your IP, the application hash, and more. Apple can fingerprint Monero users and users of any other app. There is no easy way to disable this.https://t.co/n5oXb5GTDw

— Justin Ehrenhofer (@JEhrenhofer) November 14, 2020

"This means that Apple knows when you’re at home. When you’re at work. What apps you open there, and how often. It’s not just Apple. This information doesn’t stay with them" https://t.co/JT02A2SIgx pic.twitter.com/LHtoMGAVwV

— Karthik (@beastoftraal) November 14, 2020

Niceties that Apple included in their latest MacOS (but were not that widely announced) https://t.co/s6QXlKmLQR If you're concerned about how your very own device spies on you, read this to the end

— Jesus M Gonzalez-Barahona (@jgbarah) November 14, 2020

seen a couple of people writing this off as stallmanism or whatever (probably because of the bad headline) but it does appear to be genuinely extremely bad https://t.co/WEwkBawQyg

— moon juice truther (@aeonofdiscord) November 13, 2020

If you use apple products you should read this then consider switching to FOSS alternatives.https://t.co/bPyYJGwMCq

— Matt Odell (@matt_odell) November 13, 2020

I feel like the EU really needs to take a good long look at macOS Big Sur. User privacy through user surveillance doesn't strike me as a particularly bright idea (it's *very* "1984" though):https://t.co/UI4ARkCjqj

— Andre Weissflog (@FlohOfWoe) November 13, 2020

TIL If you buy a new macbook you're fucked. ?️https://t.co/vbxtdjKaPq

— Autism Capital ? (@AutismCapital) November 14, 2020

Privacy concerns following Apple server outage https://t.co/xiuHEqBKQq

— iMore (@iMore) November 14, 2020

Apple, the "privacy" company is now sending logs to their servers every time you open an app on your laptop.

And this is *unencrypted*.

?https://t.co/JIJ8cWfHBo

— Madhu Menon (@madmanweb) November 15, 2020

The difference between Apple's marketing spin on privacy vs. the latest revelations on Macs sending UNENCRYPTED logs of every single app launch and bypassing VPN for apps of Apple's choice… well, that difference is pretty damn staggering.

?➡️https://t.co/PhTIxyaqmj pic.twitter.com/SKhgz74uJg

— ♏️ℹ️ⓔⓂ️?️ (@miemo) November 14, 2020

Your computer isn't yours - how Apple is phoning home every time you use an app in Big Sur

Via sneak@sneak.berlin in the Fediversehttps://t.co/ZKtLv42HXJ

— Kathy Reid (@KathyReid) November 14, 2020

Planning to update to #macOS Big Sur - read this first! "the OS sends to Apple a hash (unique identifier) of each and every program you run, when you run it" #privacy #Apple #CyberSecurity https://t.co/NjRBHnzURp

— Konstantin Stadler (@kst_stadler) November 14, 2020

지난주 애플 서버가 죽어서 맥에서 앱이 실행이 안되던 문제가 보다 넓은 프라이버시 문제 제기로 이어져. 맥이 앱 실행시 애플에 고유 해시값을 상시 전송한다는 점과 이를 암호화하지 않아 제3자가 볼수도 있었다는 점을 지적. https://t.co/Td4yvoTAR8

— 푸른곰 (@purengom) November 14, 2020