Your Mac Is Phoning Home? Here’s How To Find Out.

You never know what’s going on inside your computer. Sometimes, an application’s trying to get out, phone home, ‘snitch’ on you. Do you know which ones?

Mac OS X is relatively secure, though outsiders are always trying to find ways to break in.

Amazingly, even on Mac OS X, many of today’s major applications are trying to break OUT of your Mac; they “phone home” to link up with the publisher via your Internet connection.

Most of the time, you won’t even know that.... (excerpted).

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