MacIntosh OS-X Network Utility, interesting URL found

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

I have not checked this djf


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From: "RJRiley \(com\)" <rjriley () rjriley com>
Date: August 18, 2008 8:14:37 AM EDT
To: <dave () farber net>
Subject: FW: MacIntosh OS-X Network Utility, interesting URL found

Dave,

What do you think of this?  Carr-L is a journalism forum.

Ronald J. Riley,


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From: Dwight Hines [mailto:dwight.hines () GMAIL COM]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 8:10 AM
To: CARR-L () LISTSERV LOUISVILLE EDU
Subject: MacIntosh OS-X Network Utility, interesting URL found

While checking to see if I could speed up my Macintosh, running OS-X. 
4.11, I opened by Network Utility software, part of the OS-X, and  
found that two of the URLs that were fixed inside were for 144.3.8.0,  
the other was for my machine.

Checking out 144.3.8.0, it turned out to be for Army Intelligence out  
in a Fort in Arizona.

I wrote one of the OS-X.4.11 lists and the responses varied. Don't  
worry about it, to it's in all Macintoshes.

Well, I'm not worried about it, but it is not in all Macs.

I emailed the Army Intel people, given by running whois, and they  
responded saying that Apple was responsible and maybe I could get  
Apple to stop doing it (putting Army Intel URL in Mac computers).   
That did not sound right because Apple, unlike the Army, has no guns  
or such.

It would be interesting to know if others have that URL embedded in  
their Network Utility, and if so, how many?

I'm crossposting this because the probability of such a number endiing  
up by chance in a computer is astoundingly low.

I don't remember ever accessing Army Intell URL, but I could have  
forgotten.

Dwight Hines
IndyMedia
150 Nesmith Ave
St. Augustine, Florida 32084
904-829-1507




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