Sort of innocuous in the grand outline of things , the new update from Apple tote up a widget check program . This program verifies whether the doohickey present in the fascia is authentic by institutionalize an HTTP GET program line to Apple ’s servers every eight hours .
There ’s no way to turn this off ( yet , but mayhap you could use Little Snitch ) , and there ’s no prompt for the user to allow or disallow this action . mass have been move over Microsoft heat for their Windows Genuine Advantage software phoning home , but it looks like Apple ’s doing something similar .
It ’s like when your neighbors hold a political party . You may not care , or desire to go , but it ’s nice to be asked .
Update : Reader Scott says it ’s dewy-eyed to disable this . spread out up the terminal and type ( one command ):
sudo launchctl unload -w /System / Library / LaunchDaemons / com.apple.dashboard.advisory.fetch.plist
It ’s not just Windows , OS XTC phone home too[Systadmin.it ]
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