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a local firewall (hands off & little snitch are handy commercial ones for mac) will help you catch these kinds of info leaks (i caught this one a long time ago
by clairity 9y ago
a local firewall (hands off & little snitch are handy commercial ones for mac) will help you catch these kinds of info leaks (i caught this one a long time ago because of mine).
it does come with a time cost however--little popups every time you launch a new application or connect to a new service that you have to evaluate and handle, since you haven't set rules for them already.
- duskwuff 9y agoA local firewall probably wouldn't have helped here -- the DNS lookups would be performed by mDNSResponder, not by iTerm itself.
- clairity 9y agoyou might be right about the DNS lookup. but i do distinctly remember getting alerts for this and being annoyed enough to go figure out how to disable the feature in iterm2 (it was at least a couple years ago, so my memory is hazy). maybe someone with more recent experience can clear up the mystery for us. =)
- ThisIs_MyName 9y agoI don't think this "feature" existed a couple of years ago.
- clairity 9y agoi think it was probably link pre-fetch that triggered the firewall rather than a dns lookup.