I don’t think Omniture is pinged during this transaction, so unless Apple were recording that cookie and matching it against web analytics data. This seems like a side effect of the implementation (likely sharing stuff from webkit). The cookie itself is characteristic of Omniture, an analytics company (who provides analytics services to Apple among many of the largest sites on the web). So yes, it does technically ping the mothership, but no it doesn’t seem to send back any data worth being concerned about. What’s interesting is that this info doesn’t seem to be cached, every time you load calculator it’s requested. Calculator seems to use CFNetwork to communicate (not surprising). ![]() I’ve got a copy for reference below for anyone who wants to see. On load it sends the following (seemingly blank) request to apple for currency conversion info. So I did a little sniffing around (literally packet sniffing), and here’s what I found. ![]() Earlier it was said that 10.5 was phoning home, though that turned out to not be the case. ![]() Though I find this somewhat odd considering Mac OS X has an update system that’s all encompassing. Based on the url one would assume that’s checking for updates (wu typically stands for web update). Wasn’t sure what this is all about, but according to Little Snitch 2.0 (which is awesome by the way) the Calculator in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) apparently phones home.
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