http://www.brandonsavage.net/apple-breaks-the-internet-temporarily/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=apple-breaks-the-internet-temporarily The personal blog of Brandon Savage. Contains entries of a personal and professional nature focusing on PHP, Apple, LAMP, MySQL and Washington, DC. Wed, 15 May 2013 14:54:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2-alpha http://www.brandonsavage.net/apple-breaks-the-internet-temporarily/#comment-4877 Peter Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:54:24 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1655#comment-4877 Don’t forget, that while checking the connectivity with the GET or HEAD request, the browser may and probably do send the cookies it associates to apple.com, so those not-so-technical users may be right, apple can track your wifi connection habits (home or work ipaddresses), and even associate it with your unique apple id…

]]> http://www.brandonsavage.net/apple-breaks-the-internet-temporarily/#comment-4853 gggeek Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:17:14 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1655#comment-4853 Seems like a poor implementation of the way windows 7 (and even poor vista) do the same check.
There are interesting blog posts from people that reverse engineered how it works and use the system to actually trace the whereabouts of the company’s laptops…

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