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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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On 2024-07-30, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> 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.'
>
><https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/01/25/network-connections-from-mediaanalysisd/>

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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