Sending diagnostic and usage data to Apple must be disabled.

From Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG

Associated with: CCI-000382

SV-65767r1_rule Sending diagnostic and usage data to Apple must be disabled.

Vulnerability discussion

Check content

The setting is found in System Preferences->Security & Privacy->Diagnostics & Usage. If the box that says "Send diagnostic & usage data to Apple" is checked, this is a finding. To check if a configuration profile is configured to enforce this setting, run the following command: sudo system_profiler SPConfigurationProfileDataType | grep AutoSubmit | awk '{ print $3 }' | sed 's/;//' If the result is not "AutoSubmit = 0;" this is a finding.

Fix text

The setting is found in System Preferences->Security & Privacy->Diagnostics & Usage Uncheck the box that says "Send diagnostic & usage data to Apple. This setting can be enforced using a configuration profile.

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