Itunes 6.02 = Spytunes?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
Date: January 11, 2006 8:42:15 AM EST
To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () g2-forward org>
Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Itunes 6.02 = Spytunes?


From the since1968 blog:
http://since1968.com/article/153/itunes-is-watching

> As noted at TUAW, iTunes 6.0.2 contains a new feature: the  
> MiniStore. It’s
> neat, at first. Sort of.
>
> But not really.
>
> Each time you play a different song, the MiniStore features  
> information about
> the artist currently playing, as well as “Listeners Also Bought…”  
> Here’s a
> full size capture of Apple marketing in action: as you can see, I’m  
> playing
> Mary J. Blige covering U2’s “One”, and the MiniStore shows other  
> albums from
> Mary J. Blige and U2.
>
> This means, of course, that every single time I play a song the  
> information is
> sent back to Apple. You can turn off the MiniStore at the click of  
> a button,
> but it’s not clear whether turning off the MiniStore is the same as  
> turning
> off the flow of data (one doubts it). And don’t bother looking for  
> a way to
> turn this “feature” off in the Preference pane: it’s not there.

< snip >

However, users report that disabling the MiniStore option within the  
iTunes
application, or blocking the app's network ports via LittleSnitch  
will fix
this, but since I'm not running iTunes 6.X, I have not verified this  
yet.

Reportedly, MiniStore ships enabled, meaning those who download and run
iTunes 6.02 would be at-risk to this monitoring.

-rf
infowarrior.org






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