According to a person who required to stay anonymous:
One of our clients, a big Apple developper, lets me know such things have existed ever since OS X bagan, so that Apple would know how their beta versions spread, to detect where was the weakest link between persons to whom it was distributed. It would seem (that person claims to be convinced of that) a similar system is still used in the Panther betas we all have by now... |
Hanny from Italy sent us the following message:
Hello, I discovered that this script /Contents/Resources/log is no more on WWDC Panther release, even if it is sourced by /Contents/Resources/preinstall sh script. And more, the remote ip 17.203.18.80 is active with port 3001 filtered, even if the host sw-eng.apple.com does not exist any more. |
And finally here's Eddy's research:
About Apple Phone Home, using WHOIS in net utilitie gives me the following results. There seems to be a real possibility to transfer an info... OrgName: Apple Computer, Inc. OrgID: APPLEC-3 Address: 20740 Valley Green Drive, MS32E City: Cupertino StateProv: CA PostalCode: 95014 Country: US NetRange: 17.0.0.0 - 17.255.255.255 CIDR: 17.0.0.0/8 NetName: APPLE-WWNET NetHandle: NET-17-0-0-0-1 Parent: NetType: Direct Assignment NameServer: NSERVER.APPLE.COM NameServer: NSERVER2.APPLE.COM NameServer: NSERVER.EURO.APPLE.COM NameServer: NSERVER.ASIA.APPLE.COM .... |
