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phoning home

behavior of computer software or systems contacting their creator over the network
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phoning home

Summary

phoning home is a technique[1]. It draws 16 Wikipedia views per month (technique category, ranking #174 of 416).[2]

Key Facts

  • phoning home's instance of is recorded as technique[3].
  • phoning home's subclass of is recorded as data transmission[4].
  • phoning home's has use is recorded as asset tracking[5].
  • phoning home's has use is recorded as software licensing[6].
  • phoning home's has use is recorded as automatic updates[7].
  • phoning home's has use is recorded as spyware[8].
  • phoning home's has use is recorded as A/B testing[9].
  • phoning home's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08rq7l[10].
  • phoning home's facet of is recorded as telemetry[11].
  • phoning home's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780456938[12].

Why It Matters

phoning home draws 16 Wikipedia views per month (technique category, ranking #174 of 416).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). phoning home. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/phoning-home
MLA “phoning home.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/phoning-home.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_phoning-home_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{phoning home}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/phoning-home}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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