https://discussions..../5996547?tstart=0
Noticed.. action: while I had put the sucker to Sleep
Searched: this sucker queries my iMac ~every 6 hours:
3/17/14 12:21:41 AM c-50-136-200-160 Noticeboard[13857] Noticeboard Noticeboard: Launched, starting NoticeboardUpdateOperation
3/17/14 12:21:41 AM c-50-136-200-160 Noticeboard[13857] Noticeboard Noticeboard: NoticeboardUpdateOperation finished with notification to show: (null)
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3/20/14 8:10:35 PM c-50-185-182-41 Noticeboard[18142] Noticeboard NoticeboardUpdateOperation: Discarding notification com.apple.notification.mavericks.lion because the preflight failed with error Error Domain=PKDistributionError Code=1 UserInfo=0x113d07d50 "ERROR_0"
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3/23/14 2:05:43 PM c-50-185-182-41 Noticeboard[21847] Noticeboard Noticeboard: NoticeboardUpdateOperation finished with notification to show: (null)
3/23/14 2:05:43 PM c-50-185-182-41 Noticeboard[21847] Noticeboard Noticeboard: No notification to show. Terminating.
(My w.a.g. is that this be a Mavericky thingumbob--parsing the 8:10:35 comment, which I read as: Duh!--acknowledged-to-self re. my SnowLeopard still creaking along. aka "ERROR_0" ??)
The Level-6 guy also had no idea what it does; consensus seems that it's about the App Store.
Seems a bit too Obvious to be some carnal knowledge of the NSA/Apple edifices. Butyaneverknow--now.
Methinks that such stealth-apps should be Announced by the Apple megalopoly--just Because.
(Also, I haven't bought anything from the App Store.)
Guess I'll check-in at that link later--surely these folks will pursue this; not paranoid enough to erase. Yet.
Carrion ... it's now in tasty digital-form too.
I Who Looks at arcane drivel.. apparently not often enough, though.