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What Information is Avid Collecting?
I read previous threads on this but I don't recall seeing an answer. What information is being uploaded to Avid when running an instance of Pro Tools 12.x? Are there any details published anywhere? I am seeing about 10KB/sec of information being sent to Avid. Hopefully the attachment came through. It's a screen capture from Little Snitch.
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Re: What Information is Avid Collecting?
As a German minister for interior said recently: "A part of the response would alienate the general public". I doubt we will see an answer to this, unfortunately.
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Re: What Information is Avid Collecting?
What happens when you pull the cat5 cable from the computer? My guess would be it's some sort of ping from the Application Manager. Have you uninstalled the Application Manager?
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Re: What Information is Avid Collecting?
As far as I understand the screenshot, the traffic is from Pro Tools itself, not the Application Manager. And two Megabyte is far more than a simple request for update information, there is a substantial - unexplained and unapproved - amount of information transmitted to some servers. It would be helpful to actually learn the remote IP addresses and other details where this traffic is going to.
FWIW, I cannot reproduce this with PT 12.4 on Windows 7. I'm seeing a quick TCP session to a nearby Akamai CDN node webserver, probably an update check. Kudos to Avid for actually doing this via IPv6. A subsequent PT start doesn't even show this one, probably as PT remembered it did recently check for an update. |
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Re: What Information is Avid Collecting?
Oh, and capturing the traffic via Wireshark or similar tool able to dump as PCAP file would be interesting as well. Perhaps the data is plaintext and we'll see what is being sent offsite.
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Re: What Information is Avid Collecting?
Keep in mind that PT uses the network card to talk to EuCon devices.
Not sure if you are seeing the same thing, but see This Thread for a similar finding. |
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Re: What Information is Avid Collecting?
Very good point and why I asked about the actual IP addresses PT communicates with to make sure those are actually Avid servers.
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Re: What Information is Avid Collecting?
There's certainly data collection occurring if you have a look, and nothing to do with Eucon peripherals. It would be nice to have some open transparency from Avid on this.
Shane
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Re: What Information is Avid Collecting?
Given that PT First is a "cloud application" (CLOUD = Can't Locate Our User's Data), it's quite implicit that it connects to their "cloud" data repository (everywhere.avid.com). So no surprise in that case at all, works as designed.
Last edited by DanielR; 01-11-2016 at 10:05 AM. Reason: typo fix |
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Re: What Information is Avid Collecting?
PT|First is a completely different workflow paradigm than my HD/HDX systems. It may be "working as designed", but some open transparency to what it's actually doing is advisable along with the choice to easily opt out by the end user. Many other companies who choose to be transparent with their users do this. Even smaller open source shops like VLC upon it's very first launch:
I wanna be able to opt in/opt out easily by my own choice. Shane
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