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> Said motivation could be a nation state handing them $XXX million dollars You're missing the most important part of the motivation here: why in the world wou

by lapcat 6mo ago

> Said motivation could be a nation state handing them $XXX million dollars You're missing the most important part of the motivation here: why in the world would a nation-state give a damn about Little Snitch, especially to the tune of $XXX million dollars? A nation-state could pay $XXX million to your significant other to spy on you. But again, a nation-state doesn't give a damn about you.

wafflemaker 6mo ago
>why in the world would a nation-state give a damn about Little Snitch, especially to the tune of $XXX million dollars? Per user hacked, it can be very cheap¹ compared to bribing anyone. And give data/access that SO can't get. State is not interested in you until it does. Being Jewish, Polish, Gypsy, Gay. Or just WrongThinking. Or maybe it becomes super cheap and easy to process all information? 1: it can even be free. You either give us backdoor to all your users or you rot in jail. Here's a complementary beating up or pictures of your kids, to argument our position further.
- selcuka 6mo ago
  > it can even be free. You either give us backdoor to all your users or you rot in jail. It is already a thing, at least in UK and AU [1]: > Both countries now claim the right to secretly compel tech companies and individual technologists, including network administrators, sysadmins, and open source developers – to re-engineer software and hardware under their control, so that it can be used to spy on their users. Engineers can be penalized for refusing to comply with fines and prison; in Australia, even counseling a technologist to oppose these orders is a crime. [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-fight-online-privacy-and-security-australia-falls-what-happens-next https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-fight-online-priva...
  - lapcat 6mo ago
    1) Little Snitch is not based in the UK or Australia. 2) They are interested in software will billions of users. They are not interested in software with thousands of users.
- lapcat 6mo ago
  > Per user hacked, it can be very cheap¹ compared to bribing anyone. How many users do you think Little Snitch has?
chabreck 6mo ago
its been known for some time that little snitch and other personal firewalls are established targets of three-letter agencies https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13813160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13813160
- lapcat 6mo ago
  That comment is a screenshot presented with no context, listing a bunch of rather mundane stuff. "This is clownish" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13813828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13813828

by lapcat 6mo ago

wafflemaker 6mo ago

>why in the world would a nation-state give a damn about Little Snitch, especially to the tune of $XXX million dollars? Per user hacked, it can be very cheap¹ compared to bribing anyone. And give data/access that SO can't get. State is not interested in you until it does. Being Jewish, Polish, Gypsy, Gay. Or just WrongThinking. Or maybe it becomes super cheap and easy to process all information? 1: it can even be free. You either give us backdoor to all your users or you rot in jail. Here's a complementary beating up or pictures of your kids, to argument our position further.

selcuka 6mo ago
> it can even be free. You either give us backdoor to all your users or you rot in jail. It is already a thing, at least in UK and AU [1]: > Both countries now claim the right to secretly compel tech companies and individual technologists, including network administrators, sysadmins, and open source developers – to re-engineer software and hardware under their control, so that it can be used to spy on their users. Engineers can be penalized for refusing to comply with fines and prison; in Australia, even counseling a technologist to oppose these orders is a crime. [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-fight-online-privacy-and-security-australia-falls-what-happens-next https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-fight-online-priva...
- lapcat 6mo ago
  1) Little Snitch is not based in the UK or Australia. 2) They are interested in software will billions of users. They are not interested in software with thousands of users.
lapcat 6mo ago
> Per user hacked, it can be very cheap¹ compared to bribing anyone. How many users do you think Little Snitch has?

chabreck 6mo ago

its been known for some time that little snitch and other personal firewalls are established targets of three-letter agencies https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13813160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13813160

lapcat 6mo ago
That comment is a screenshot presented with no context, listing a bunch of rather mundane stuff. "This is clownish" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13813828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13813828