FaceTime comes with two resident running services but both are placed in the FaceTime.app /Applications/FaceTime.app/Contents/PrivateFrameworks/IMCore.framework/imagent.a pp/Contents/MacOS/imagent /Applications/FaceTime.app/Contents/Frameworks/ApplePushService.framework/apsd-f t To remove complete the App open a Terminal and type in: sudo rm -rf /Applications/FaceTime.app rm /Users/[YOURUSERNAME]/Library/Preferences/com.apple.FaceTime.plist rm -rf /Users/[YOURUSERNAME]/Library/Caches/com.apple.FaceTime That's all. Otherwise TrashMe will do the job for you as too Restart your lovely Mac. For those interested in such things, the apsd-ft process phones home to an Apple server whenever your Mac gets a new IP address on its LAN interface. Thus, Apple is probably collecting your WAN IP address as you and your laptop moves from place to place. (they need to know your IP address so they can initiate a FaceTime call to your Mac).
If they're clever, they will also collect the SSIDs and MAC addresses of all the WiFi access points visible to your Mac (if you have wireless). In conjunction with Skyhook, or their own geo-location database, they'll know where you are whenever your FaceTime-equipped Mac is turned on. In the hour since installing FT, I've seen connections from apsd-ft to: 34-courier.push.apple.com 24.courier-push-apple.com.akadns.net 28-courier.push.apple.com 13-courier.push.apple.com 47-courier.push.apple.com 29-courier.push.apple.com and several more. Wrote: For those interested in such things, the apsd-ft process phones home to an Apple server whenever your Mac gets a new IP address on its LAN interface.
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Thus, Apple is probably collecting your WAN IP address as you and your laptop moves from place to place. (they need to know your IP address so they can initiate a FaceTime call to your Mac). Just to be clear, having your WAN IP address would not, in most real-world situations, get an outside server directly back to you. The system has to leave the apsd-ft connection open.
If they're clever, they will also collect the SSIDs and MAC addresses of all the WiFi access points visible to your Mac (if you have wireless). In conjunction with Skyhook, or their own geo-location database, they'll know where you are whenever your FaceTime-equipped Mac is turned on. Isn't this already done by CoreLocation on Macs with or without FaceTime installed? I'm not sure what privacy controls are included for CoreLocation, but 'locationd' on my MacBook Pro under SL talks out all the time.
I don't think that there's a FaceTime specific privacy issue here above and beyond the ones already in OS/X. Dlink dfe520tx driver for mac. Weisen wrote: Just to be clear, having your WAN IP address would not, in most real-world situations, get an outside server directly back to you.
The system has to leave the apsd-ft connection open. Strictly speaking, the TCP connection doesn't have to stay open. At minimum, the Mac only needs to make a connection often enough to keep the NAT mapping alive in your NAT router. This has been a standard trick in the VoIP world for years, using STUN servers and other mechanisms to permit a WAN connection back to the host through a previously-established NAT mapping. Weisen wrote: Isn't this already done by CoreLocation on Macs with or without FaceTime installed?