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Address Book and configuration.apple.com

When I launch Apple's Address Book application and try to open the Preferences window, Little Snitch tells me that Address Book wants to connect to configuration.apple.com. If I deny the connection, the Preferences window will not open. I don't care about the benefits this might have behind the scenes. This is evil.

I allowed the connection once, quit Address Book, relaunched it and I was not prompted to allow another connection to configuration.apple.com. That seems odd. The Preferences window opened without a problem.

I took my computer offline, no internet connectivity, and was able to get into the Preferences window. I don't know if this is because I already allowed the connection once, or if Apple has some way of determining if a connection is available and only demand the connection to configuration.apple.com if there is one.

Googling around suggests this has something to do Software Update. I don't care.

It's Evil and wrong for applications to phone home without user consent, and it's DOUBLY EVIL and wrong to disable application capabilities if the secret phoning home is uncovered and disallowed.

Evil.

1 Comments:

  • I'll second your opinion. Just started Googling for the same reasons, but instead, configuration.apple.com is coming up every time I open a new message window in Apple Mail. Annoying.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 27, 2009  

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