I just installed Mac OS X on my iPod, but as I didn't wish to reboot from the CD for such a small task, I've merely been to the "System" folder that's on the CD, then Installation/Packages, and opened OSInstall.mpkg Install process went smoothly (in fact it's not even finished while I'm typing those lines), but at tyhe beginning, during "pre-treatment script" excecution, Little Snitch warned me that "Perl"was attempting to connect to apple.com. A bit puzzled, I let him go on but then checked, in OSInstall.mpkg/Contents/Resources, the contents of the "preinstall" file that's normally proceeded with before the install self : it contained the line "LOG=$1/Contents/Resources/log". This drove me to check also Contents/Resources/log, whose contents was quite more surprising! Code: #!/usr/bin/perl # # Installation Log Client # Mike Trent # 11/3/2000 # # we need to send: # the update name "update" # the ip number "address" # the ether MAC address "ether" # the install start time "start" # the install stop time "stop" use FileHandle; use Socket; $gHost = "sw-eng.apple.com"; $gHost = "17.203.18.80"; # sw-eng $gPort = 3001; &main(); exit 0; Followed by a code (Perl, so readable) to interprete the results. (You'll find it on your install CD in folder /System/Installation/Packages/OSinstall.mpkg/Contents/Resources/log) Could anyone tell me why Apple sends, prior to install and without warning us, both IP and MAC adresses, as well as OSX install hour?!! |
Our advice before we know more on that stuff is to deconnect from the Net before proceeding to any installation.
[Upd] After some raw discussions on our forums, that line of code turns out to be no more than old thing perhaps belonging to a beta version. IPs seem not to function on the Web. Nothing gets out of your machine.
We still consider though that unplugging a net wire (especially if that net is always connected to the Web) is a bit of tranquillity.
After the OS is installed, applications exist that enable control of what goes out of the machine.
