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Little Snitch 4 released
- n42 9y agoThis was released a couple months back, and already discussed on HN. Good release - the UI and taskbar visual improvements are nice. The map view is cool, but not sure how much practical value it added.
- lostgame 9y agoI'm sure this has a handful of legitimate users for privacy purposes but I'm genuinely curious how minuscule that user group is vs. the massive user base for piracy, preventing apps from 'phoning home.' I mean, back in the MSJ days, this was 'the tool' for Mac piracy. It may have more legitimate uses now, but that's how I remember it from back in the day. And doesn't MacOS' more current built-in firewall potentially take care of a lot of what this would do?
- nicky0 9y agoWouldn't know about the piracy bit, but no, MacOS has no built in service even remotely as capable as Little Snitch.
- 0xCMP 9y agoIt wouldn’t notify you of everything. Whatever an app does is pretty much trusted by the system at the app level.
- miskin 9y agoI think it is always good to know which application is doing what on the network - especially when there is no source code to check. Little snitch was first application that I installed on Macbook and I'd do it again - I feel bit more in control of my own device this way.
- Washuu 9y agoMy main computer is on the DMZ in my router so I use Little Snitch to hide the existence of all other ports and services. OS X's firewall can do this if I felt like manually configuring everything on the command line.
- thescribe 9y agoI prevent a lot of things from phoning home, but I have no pirated software on my computer. I just don't want to send out analytics and all that other traffic.