AppleTV contains a phonehome ??!!

[Former Bender]

This is what asl.log told me just right after AppleTV 's Back Row crashed :

[Time 2007.04.02 20:25:54 UTC] [Facility daemon] [Sender crashdump] [PID 275] [Message crash report written to: /Users/miniduo/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Front Row.crash.log] [Level 3] [UID -2] [GID -2] [Host miniduo]
[Time 2007.04.02 20:25:55 UTC] [Facility user] [Sender Crash Reporter] [PID 276] [Message Your crash report is being automatically submitted! You can disable auto-submit using this shell command:;defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter AutoSubmit NO] [Level 3] [UID -2] [GID -2] [Host miniduo]
[Time 2007.04.02 20:25:55 UTC] [Facility user] [Sender Crash Reporter] [PID 276] [Message For quality control purposes auto-submit is enabled by default for Apple internal users. Apple employees should still file RADARs for bug tracking purposes.] [Level 3] [UID -2] [GID -2] [Host miniduo]
[Time 2007.04.02 20:25:55 UTC] [Facility user] [Sender Crash Reporter] [PID 276] [Message Collecting system configuration...] [Level 3] [UID -2] [GID -2] [Host miniduo]
[Time 2007.04.02 20:25:56 UTC] [Facility user] [Sender Crash Reporter] [PID 276] [Message Sending...] [Level 3] [UID -2] [GID -2] [Host miniduo]
[Time 2007.04.02 20:25:56 UTC] [Facility user] [Sender Crash Reporter] [PID 276] [Message GetMACAddress] [Level 3] [UID -2] [GID -2] [Host miniduo]
[Time 2007.04.02 20:25:56 UTC] [Facility user] [Sender Crash Reporter] [PID 276] [Message Iterating....] [Level 3] [UID -2] [GID -2] [Host miniduo]
[Time 2007.04.02 20:25:56 UTC] [Facility user] [Sender Crash Reporter] [PID 276] [Message Error CURLcode: 7 errorbuffer: Failed to connect to 17.254.2.214: Host is down] [Level 3] [UID -2]

Failed to connect ! Indeed, thanks Little Snitch to prevent "Yellow Submarine" IP Packets to be sent without my consent. :mad:

17.254.2.214 is from the Apple Private IP Range. (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.apple.com)

How the system does to differentiate Apple internal Users from Customers ? :confused:

If you (really ?) want to stop this kind of message type this in terminal >>

defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter AutoSubmit NO

[GoodOmens]

Maybe left over code from development?

[mfbernstein]

Or likely, this is their attempt at QA. Just like how when apps unexpectedly quit in OS X, you get a query asking you to send a bug report. Since the AppleTV doesn't really have a good interface for that sort of thing, they have it default to sending the reports. Probably you're not supposed to see the log part itself