WEBVTT 00:00.840 --> 00:04.770 Mac OS X also has its privacy problems. 00:04.770 --> 00:05.960 Let me show you this video. 00:06.010 --> 00:10.200 I think this is a good presentation of what the issues are. 00:13.670 --> 00:19.260 Apple released a new operating system this weekend Yosemite and in it we found some surprising features 00:19.280 --> 00:26.690 but I suspect most users would like to know about for example just bringing up Spotlight search the 00:26.690 --> 00:29.170 feature you use to search for files on your operating system. 00:29.180 --> 00:35.520 Now transmits your location and the name of the files you're searching for to Apple on a regular basis. 00:35.540 --> 00:39.470 You'll notice that your location is being transmitted to Apple even though you're not showing the location 00:39.470 --> 00:40.710 notification icon. 00:40.850 --> 00:45.500 They have chosen to suppress the notification for worry that consumers will be overwhelmed with too 00:45.500 --> 00:46.970 many notification messages. 00:46.970 --> 00:51.350 What this means is if you've opted into location services then you've also opted into sharing your location 00:51.350 --> 00:53.240 permissions silently with Apple. 00:53.270 --> 00:57.000 You also notice that this information is being sent even before I start typing. 00:57.170 --> 00:59.770 As we type our keystrokes are sent to Apple one by one. 00:59.840 --> 01:02.620 I'm searching for a document on my computer called secret plans. 01:02.630 --> 01:03.730 Obama like me. 01:03.830 --> 01:08.330 But Apple receives that information along with my location and user IDs which is a unique string of 01:08.330 --> 01:10.510 letters and numbers used to identify them. 01:10.580 --> 01:14.630 Apple tells us that this changes every 15 minutes but we have to trust that it's not being linked to 01:14.630 --> 01:15.700 the prior one. 01:15.710 --> 01:18.290 Still they receive of this information. 01:18.290 --> 01:20.850 You can definitely tell that we're here at The Washington Post. 01:20.870 --> 01:22.100 Based on these coordinates 01:26.620 --> 01:33.070 so to disable these things first thing is you want to go to System Preferences and then get a spotlight 01:33.860 --> 01:41.330 and from Spotlight you can see all of the things that spotlight looks in inners do searches for you. 01:41.500 --> 01:48.400 So this can be very useful but it can also be a privacy issue as you've just seen. 01:48.510 --> 01:52.010 So you definitely want to switch of spotlight suggestions. 01:55.540 --> 02:04.060 Also being web searches and then it's really up to you as to what you want to disable. 02:04.110 --> 02:10.800 But I would suggest those two as a minimum you also need to disable spotlight suggestions in Safari 02:10.800 --> 02:15.090 if of course you are using Safari be open safari. 02:15.270 --> 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 02:23.060 --> 02:24.200 the moment. 02:24.570 --> 02:30.840 So you want to have sort of include spotlight's suggestions. 02:30.840 --> 02:37.380 There is a shell script you can use to remove Marcos privacy issues and remove callbacks to Apple and 02:37.380 --> 02:38.870 that you can find here. 02:38.880 --> 02:45.480 So if you don't use push notifications spotlight suggestions or do not like to send your browser history 02:45.610 --> 02:53.090 bookmarks and other things to apple then you can use this script but do make sure you're up here. 02:53.130 --> 02:56.790 You actually look at the script and that you're happy with what it's doing. 02:56.790 --> 02:59.010 Don't just run if you don't understand it. 02:59.370 --> 03:07.080 Edit the config SH file to add or remove things you want to have enabled or disabled. 03:07.080 --> 03:13.050 For more information on my privacy complaints you can see this Web site here does actually have an SSL 03:13.200 --> 03:13.880 error. 03:14.130 --> 03:20.640 It's expired as of recording which is not very good but it's just for providing information so you can 03:20.640 --> 03:22.110 accept that and move on. 03:22.290 --> 03:27.510 And just look at the information there and other side that will tell you more information about Macfarren 03:27.620 --> 03:30.150 homes is this one you can check out. 03:30.450 --> 03:36.330 And here this is netminder which is a tool kit for getting phone home behavior of all users and system 03:36.330 --> 03:37.500 level processes. 03:37.560 --> 03:45.000 On Mac OSS This is specifically designed for your Samiti as always look at the script before running. 03:45.120 --> 03:50.210 And one last thing you want to be notified when location services are used. 03:50.220 --> 03:53.240 So we do this by going here. 03:54.500 --> 04:03.670 Your system preferences privacy and security men have to unlock this location services down here System 04:03.940 --> 04:12.490 Services details and then if we click here show location icon in menu bar when System Services request 04:12.490 --> 04:21.890 your location so essentially if Apple is wanting to request your location is going to notify you Don 04:25.150 --> 04:25.870 and then we all.