On: macOS has checked app signatures online for over 2 years

[cdubzzz]

I didn’t mean to imply that one could not name programs that don’t communicate. Of course they exist. I’m not arguing for this type of behavior, just pointing out that it is pretty much the norm. On macOS I use Little Snitch to find and shutdown must of this extra traffic.

[gspr → cdubzzz]

> I can’t think of a single program off the top of my head that doesn’t use the Internet to some extent while running

> I didn’t mean to imply that one could not name programs that don’t communicate.

Can you understand how people would read your first comment that way, though?

[cdubzzz → gspr]

Yes, definitely! But in my defense, it is simply not what I tapped out (:

I was trying to think of a regular program I use on my macOS (work) laptop that doesn’t connect to the Internet “unexpectedly” and I came up blank.