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Apple responds to privacy concerns over Dashboard phoning home

by David Chartier (Jul 9th, 2006)

One only needs to brush up on the Windows Genuine Advantage debacle over at Download Squad (a sister blog) to get a recent example of the trouble a company can get into for making their software phone home (let alone adding an alleged 'kill switch' for the OS, but that's a different story). You can ...

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