Well, this is scary "Your Computer Isn't Yours"

[P1LGRIM]

To verify the patch actually works, download Wireshark

Or ping ocsp.apple.com and check that it returns 127.0.0.1.

 

[manolo2001]

No need to be scared about Apple's data collection without your consent.

There's a very simple patch you can use to stop this activity in macOS Mojave through Big Sur. Open up Terminal and copy and paste the following:

echo "127.0.0.1 ocsp.apple.com isrg.trustid.ocsp.identrust.com" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
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An easier to read version for those using 4 or 5K monitors.

echo "127.0.0.1 ocsp.apple.com isrg.trustid.ocsp.identrust.com" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

To undo, run this terminal command:

sudo sed -i "" "/ocsp\.apple\.com/d" /etc/hosts

For those still running High Sierra or older macOS versions you don't need to use the patch to stop this. It only started after macOS Mojave was released.

just ran this and it's working !!!!! thanks heaps !!!!!!

pings are 127.0.0.1

 

[scottkendall]

No need to be scared about Apple's data collection without your consent.

There's a very simple patch you can use to stop this activity in macOS Mojave through Big Sur. Open up Terminal and copy and paste the following:

echo "127.0.0.1 ocsp.apple.com isrg.trustid.ocsp.identrust.com" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
View attachment 496197
An easier to read version for those using 4 or 5K monitors.

echo "127.0.0.1 ocsp.apple.com isrg.trustid.ocsp.identrust.com" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

To undo, run this terminal command:

sudo sed -i "" "/ocsp\.apple\.com/d" /etc/hosts

For those still running High Sierra or older macOS versions you don't need to use the patch to stop this. It only started after macOS Mojave was released.

Nice I was going to suggest that someone write an app that pretends to be apple and just receives all the data and stores it on your computer. But I guess changing the host works just fine.

I am not sure I understand the need for larger text for the people with 4k or 5k monitors I read the small text just fine... In addition I did not really read the text but instead just copied and pasted it... =)

 

[trs96]

I am not sure I understand the need for larger text for the people with 4k or 5k monitors

Here's how small it looked on my 1080p monitor. I've since enlarged it to an 18 font from 15. If I zoom in with my Firefox browser it makes text look too blurry.

 

[pastrychef]

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. Lots of people didn’t realize this, because it’s silent and invisible and it fails instantly and gracefully when you’re offline, but today the server got really slowand it didn’t hit the fail-fast code path, and everyone’s apps failed to open if they were connected to the internet.

Source: Apple spying with BigSur

That's some serious click bait title. The page itself has the following posted:

 

[scottkendall]

Here's how small it looked on my 1080p monitor. I've since enlarged it to an 18 font from 15. If I zoom in with my Firefox browser it makes text look too blurry.

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Oh I have my browser text enlarged a bit since native size at 4k is small.. I can still read it but I found it was straining my eyes to much to read text at native size for 4k.

 

[scottkendall]

That's some serious click bait title. The page itself has the following posted:
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What is funny about the title "your computer isn't yours" is that it has never been yours. I mean the hardware that is in it you own that. But you do not own the software you pay to be allowed to use it. There is a licensing agreement that most people do not take the time to read that basically says; This is ours not yours and you may use it these are our terms if you do not like go "F" yourself.

 

[pastrychef]

What is funny about the title "your computer isn't yours" is that it has never been yours. I mean the hardware that is in it you own that. But you do not own the software you pay to be allowed to use it. There is a licensing agreement that most people do not take the time to read that basically says; This is ours not yours and you may use it these are our terms if you do not like go "F" yourself.

Yeah. Users have always just been licensed to use the OS for as long as I can remember. I don't know now that came to be... It has only gotten worse with time. Nowadays, with all the subscriptions, lots of software are just rentals.

 

[scottkendall]

Yeah. Users have always just been licensed to use the OS for as long as I can remember. I don't know now that came to be... It has only gotten worse with time. Nowadays, with all the subscriptions, lots of software are just rentals.

Tell me about it I spend $50 a month for the Adobe Suite because it is cheaper to have everything then it is have photoshop and acrobat or it is reasonably close and stupid not to just do the entire package. I also spend like 2k a year for Autodesk stuff and once again it is cheaper to do the entire suite of all programs then to just do Revit and Autocad. I also have Apple Music sub because well I am really bad with purchased music and $10 a month for unlimited music new and old is pretty good deal if you have a job. Software has always been licensed as far as I know but I was poor and my first computer was a 386 DX2 that was gifted to me when the first pentium chips were coming out so it was already kind of old. It was kept in a shoe box because it was an old Packered bell board that had a riser card and the person who gave it to me did not have a case for it... I also had a rickety old 14.4 modem with on parallel port! Windows at that point was licensed I think it was 3.11 or maybe it was 95 it is hard to remember. But it did the only thing I wanted it for and that was get on the internet threw AOL to talk in the chat rooms.

 

[pastrychef]

Tell me about it I spend $50 a month for the Adobe Suite because it is cheaper to have everything then it is have photoshop and acrobat or it is reasonably close and stupid not to just do the entire package. I also spend like 2k a year for Autodesk stuff and once again it is cheaper to do the entire suite of all programs then to just do Revit and Autocad. I also have Apple Music sub because well I am really bad with purchased music and $10 a month for unlimited music new and old is pretty good deal if you have a job. Software has always been licensed as far as I know but I was poor and my first computer was a 386 DX2 that was gifted to me when the first pentium chips were coming out so it was already kind of old. It was kept in a shoe box because it was an old Packered bell board that had a riser card and the person who gave it to me did not have a case for it... I also had a rickety old 14.4 modem with on parallel port! Windows at that point was licensed I think it was 3.11 or maybe it was 95 it is hard to remember. But it did the only thing I wanted it for and that was get on the internet threw AOL to talk in the chat rooms.

Yeah, for work and for companies, it's probably more cost efficient to subscribe to Adobe than to purchase the software outright when you consider that upgrades used to cost money anyway. For an individual, I lean more towards switching to the Affinity Suite or Pixelmator if you just need a Photoshop-like tool.

On the other hand, if/when I get a new Xbox, I'd probably go for the Game Pass when considering how new titles are often ~$70 and since I mainly play PRGs and hardly ever go back and play them again after completing them. For tools such as Photoshop, Pixelmator, Affinity Photo, users typically use these apps year after year...

I know I'm showing my age, but when I was first exposed to "online", 1200 baud modems were the norm and the biggest online service was CompuServe. Lol. I even ran a dial-up BBS in my early teens. AOL didn't come along until much later...