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Firewalls and endpoint security are important, and Little Snitch is pretty good, but this feels like an ad being posted. It’s just a link to the main page of t
by redrix 2y ago
Firewalls and endpoint security are important, and Little Snitch is pretty good, but this feels like an ad being posted.
It’s just a link to the main page of their website: nothing specific to warrant discussion.
- dcreater 2y agoAnd it's a very old and well known software..
- stogot 2y agoI used it years ago but did not know they added all these features. I enjoyed seeing this post here
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- whycome 2y agoIt’s an HN “read the room” submission. It’s contextually related to earlier discussion about Apple Photos phoning home without a direct reference to it.
- acomjean 2y agoMy understanding is that there were some issues with Apple often not allowing its own traffic to be filtered via firewalls on its systems. See discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25109724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25109724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37500237 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37500237 If you want to monitor your own network I’ve heard good things about the pi-hole project https://pi-hole.net/blog/2017/02/22/what-really-happens-on-your-network-find-out-with-pi-hole/ https://pi-hole.net/blog/2017/02/22/what-really-happens-on-y...
- sneak 2y agoThat’s long outdated information. LS can easily block all Apple phone-home. (Some must be unblocked, specifically gs.apple.com, for UpdateBrainService, for OS updates to work.) I have a few macs that don’t communicate with Apple at all except during system updates.
- m463 2y agoIf little snitch worked on ios... I'm pretty sure the only reason it works on macos at all was that it got in early. I believe Apple periodically tries to hobble it but there is pushback.