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The best feature is the map which shows the locations of all the connection attempts. You can quickly spot anomalous connections to countries/servers, and loca
by SanjayMehta 2y ago
The best feature is the map which shows the locations of all the connection attempts.
You can quickly spot anomalous connections to countries/servers, and locate the specific process doing this.
I found a daemon left over from an uninstalled app which was attempting to connect to its mother ship in China. Very strange.
- saagarjha 2y agoI mean renting us-east servers is not hard if you’re trying to conceal what you’re trying to do
- kstrauser 2y agoSure is nice for spotting the low hanging fruit though.
- danpalmer 2y agoWhat exactly does one learn from this normally? A leftover daemon is a bit of an edge case, and you could have learnt the same from looking at Activity Monitor, seeing a permissions pop-up, noticing higher energy use, etc, but learning that software connects to China seems... fine? Unless one wants to classify all connections to China as by-definition bad, which is discrimination that I don't want to engage in personally. A bad actor can conceal whatever they want by renting a server anywhere they like. Meanwhile, there are many legit reasons why software might connect to China – maybe the company hosts services on Alibaba Cloud, maybe the software is from a Chinese producer and they chose local hosting. To me, the map is mostly fear-mongering.
- SanjayMehta 2y agoYou obviously know more about macOS internals than most people. I don’t know how to monitor energy use, and if I have time, I will look it up. For me, one app which not only notifies, also shows me where its connecting is a big advantage.
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