Little Snitch 4 released

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This 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.

Previous discussion of new features: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14628332

Oh, how I'd love a FOSS, cross-platform, OS-wide, uMatrix-like, firewall!!!

I'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?

Wouldn't know about the piracy bit, but no, MacOS has no built in service even remotely as capable as Little Snitch.

It wouldn’t notify you of everything. Whatever an app does is pretty much trusted by the system at the app level.

I 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.

My 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.

I 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.

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