Your computer isn't yours - blog post by hacker and security researcher Jeffery Paul.

Jeffery Paul is attracting a lot of attention for his latest blog post which points out just how often Apple operating systems phone home.  The recent slow down in many macs around the rollout of BigSur were caused by the Online Certificate Status Protocol stapling which is one example of why the mac OS would phone home (you read about that at arstechnica.

But Paul's essay is about more than just validity checking apps on your mac and he raises good points.  Here is a link to his article (warning, popups ahead that will ask you to signup for his newsletter):

 Jeffery Paul's "Your computer isn't yours".