So, I recently added Little Snitch to my Mac computing repertoire and who should it find wanting to phone home? Hmmm? That’s right, OSX’s Calculator.
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Needless to say, I have blocked it. I can’t for the life of me imagine why the calculator would EVER need to phone home. What, does Apple want to know what I’ve been adding lately?
WTF, Apple?
Well, after about 5 seconds of googling, I ran across a post on Robert Accettura’s blog which says calculator phones home to find the current exchange rate for various currencies. Robert goes on to give his opinion that this isn’t a privacy concern even though the communication does include a cookie which could contain personally identifiable info.
I don’t know about you, but my card-carrying status in the Tin-Foil Hat Brigade mandates that I nix these communications post haste!
