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“Why is Apple spying on us?”

The rumbles from those with tinfoil hats have reached its peak over the last couple of days. On macOS Big Sur’s launch day, Apple’s OCSP server got extremely slow, and people noticed it. Jeffrey Paul’s post “Your Computer Isn’t Yours” accused Apple of collecting Date, Time, Computer, ISP, City, State, Application Hash whenever you launch an application, on a computer you own, in the form of OCSP requests. …