1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:04,770 Mac OS X also has its privacy problems. 2 00:00:04,770 --> 00:00:05,960 Let me show you this video. 3 00:00:06,010 --> 00:00:10,200 I think this is a good presentation of what the issues are. 4 00:00:13,670 --> 00:00:19,260 Apple released a new operating system this weekend Yosemite and in it we found some surprising features 5 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:26,690 but I suspect most users would like to know about for example just bringing up Spotlight search the 6 00:00:26,690 --> 00:00:29,170 feature you use to search for files on your operating system. 7 00:00:29,180 --> 00:00:35,520 Now transmits your location and the name of the files you're searching for to Apple on a regular basis. 8 00:00:35,540 --> 00:00:39,470 You'll notice that your location is being transmitted to Apple even though you're not showing the location 9 00:00:39,470 --> 00:00:40,710 notification icon. 10 00:00:40,850 --> 00:00:45,500 They have chosen to suppress the notification for worry that consumers will be overwhelmed with too 11 00:00:45,500 --> 00:00:46,970 many notification messages. 12 00:00:46,970 --> 00:00:51,350 What this means is if you've opted into location services then you've also opted into sharing your location 13 00:00:51,350 --> 00:00:53,240 permissions silently with Apple. 14 00:00:53,270 --> 00:00:57,000 You also notice that this information is being sent even before I start typing. 15 00:00:57,170 --> 00:00:59,770 As we type our keystrokes are sent to Apple one by one. 16 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:02,620 I'm searching for a document on my computer called secret plans. 17 00:01:02,630 --> 00:01:03,730 Obama like me. 18 00:01:03,830 --> 00:01:08,330 But Apple receives that information along with my location and user IDs which is a unique string of 19 00:01:08,330 --> 00:01:10,510 letters and numbers used to identify them. 20 00:01:10,580 --> 00:01:14,630 Apple tells us that this changes every 15 minutes but we have to trust that it's not being linked to 21 00:01:14,630 --> 00:01:15,700 the prior one. 22 00:01:15,710 --> 00:01:18,290 Still they receive of this information. 23 00:01:18,290 --> 00:01:20,850 You can definitely tell that we're here at The Washington Post. 24 00:01:20,870 --> 00:01:22,100 Based on these coordinates 25 00:01:26,620 --> 00:01:33,070 so to disable these things first thing is you want to go to System Preferences and then get a spotlight 26 00:01:33,860 --> 00:01:41,330 and from Spotlight you can see all of the things that spotlight looks in inners do searches for you. 27 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:48,400 So this can be very useful but it can also be a privacy issue as you've just seen. 28 00:01:48,510 --> 00:01:52,010 So you definitely want to switch of spotlight suggestions. 29 00:01:55,540 --> 00:02:04,060 Also being web searches and then it's really up to you as to what you want to disable. 30 00:02:04,110 --> 00:02:10,800 But I would suggest those two as a minimum you also need to disable spotlight suggestions in Safari 31 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:15,090 if of course you are using Safari be open safari. 32 00:02:15,270 --> 00:02:23,040 Go to your preferences and click on the Security tab and then you want to select this one as it is at 33 00:02:23,060 --> 00:02:24,200 the moment. 34 00:02:24,570 --> 00:02:30,840 So you want to have sort of include spotlight's suggestions. 35 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:37,380 There is a shell script you can use to remove Marcos privacy issues and remove callbacks to Apple and 36 00:02:37,380 --> 00:02:38,870 that you can find here. 37 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:45,480 So if you don't use push notifications spotlight suggestions or do not like to send your browser history 38 00:02:45,610 --> 00:02:53,090 bookmarks and other things to apple then you can use this script but do make sure you're up here. 39 00:02:53,130 --> 00:02:56,790 You actually look at the script and that you're happy with what it's doing. 40 00:02:56,790 --> 00:02:59,010 Don't just run if you don't understand it. 41 00:02:59,370 --> 00:03:07,080 Edit the config SH file to add or remove things you want to have enabled or disabled. 42 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:13,050 For more information on my privacy complaints you can see this Web site here does actually have an SSL 43 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:13,880 error. 44 00:03:14,130 --> 00:03:20,640 It's expired as of recording which is not very good but it's just for providing information so you can 45 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:22,110 accept that and move on. 46 00:03:22,290 --> 00:03:27,510 And just look at the information there and other side that will tell you more information about Macfarren 47 00:03:27,620 --> 00:03:30,150 homes is this one you can check out. 48 00:03:30,450 --> 00:03:36,330 And here this is netminder which is a tool kit for getting phone home behavior of all users and system 49 00:03:36,330 --> 00:03:37,500 level processes. 50 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:45,000 On Mac OSS This is specifically designed for your Samiti as always look at the script before running. 51 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:50,210 And one last thing you want to be notified when location services are used. 52 00:03:50,220 --> 00:03:53,240 So we do this by going here. 53 00:03:54,500 --> 00:04:03,670 Your system preferences privacy and security men have to unlock this location services down here System 54 00:04:03,940 --> 00:04:12,490 Services details and then if we click here show location icon in menu bar when System Services request 55 00:04:12,490 --> 00:04:21,890 your location so essentially if Apple is wanting to request your location is going to notify you Don 56 00:04:25,150 --> 00:04:25,870 and then we all.