Apple denies spying its anti-malware feature on Mac users

Cairo – by Mohamed Salah – Apple was forced to clarify what its main anti-malware system was called Porter After security researchers claimed the system violated privacy, the company, according to a report from 9 websitesto5Mac, Updated its support documents to make it clear that the system is not tracking what its users are doing. At the same time, Apple announced that it would change how it works. Porter In the future, to further reduce future risks.

This story started on November 12, when I reported a lot of my users Mac Issues reported when opening third-party apps, and the issue has spread to Apple’s own platforms as well, such as iMessage greet Pay, Who started behaving erratically for a short period of time, and the reason was him Porter, Which is a security system provided by Apple to check whether a program should be running or not.

If it is a device Mac Your connected to the Internet, it will program Porter It checks whether it is safe to run a program or not, for example if you decide to run an app PhotoshopYour computer will test the connection to the Apple server to make sure that Adobe He still has a valid developer certificate, and this process is generally quick and invisible to users except for the number of people who switch to MacOS Big Sur Overwhelm the system and slow down the process.

Researchers, out of curiosity, started looking for the cause of the slowdown and analyzed the data their computers sent to Apple’s servers, and they claimed the operating system was sending details of what you were using in plain text. to Apple, which naturally caused a lot of panic, and as These claims are made by researcher Jacopo Janoni, who explained that OCSP, Or the online certificate status protocol, does not work that way.

However, Apple said it would work to ensure that Porter In the future, it will encrypt its transmission data and allow users to unsubscribe from the system.