What is locationd and why is my 3rd party firewall intercepting it in Snow Leopard at intervals?
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Little Snitch reported an outgoing connection from locationd which appears to be a new daemon installed by default on Snow Leopard. A search for strings inside the locationd binary shows a link to http://skyhookwireless.com. The index of their page reads: Skyhook Wireless' XPS is the world's first …
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Short answer: You are seeing the request to Skyhook Wireless because they have the geographic database that Apple uses for Core Location in the operating system. Longer answer: Skyhook Wireless is the company with the geographic database about WiFi …
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