{"id":362,"date":"2006-07-06T18:39:39","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T17:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=362"},"modified":"2009-10-09T16:52:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T15:52:31","slug":"little_snitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2006\/07\/06\/little_snitch.php","title":{"rendered":"Little Snitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OS X Operating System might be free of virii and trojans at the moment but I cannot imagine this situation will last.  Also being free from malicious code doesn&#8217;t prevent otherwise trustworthy companies from &#8216;phoning home&#8217; as is the case with <a href=\"http:\/\/dekstop.de\/weblog\/2005\/12\/osx_10_4_3_phoning_home\/\">OS X 10.4.3<\/a>.<br \/>\nIn the windows worlds the obvious answer is to just get the free edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zonelabs.com\/\">Zone Alarm<\/a> but sadly there is nothing free in the Mac world.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve often come across mentions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obdev.at\/products\/littlesnitch\/index.html\">Little Snitch<\/a> so I figured I&#8217;ll check it out, from its website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYou start an application that tells you that a new version is available. You suddenly realize that with every start this application connects to the developer&#8217;s server. Even statistics information about your computer may be sent this way. Little Snitch helps you avoid this situation.<br \/>\nTrojan horses &#8211; i.e. programs transmitting unconsciously data stored on your computer &#8211; can be detected by Little Snitch and prevented on the transmission of data.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I tried its free demo for a few days and last night bought it via PayPal thanks to the strong Pound it was a bargain, below is a screenshot of it in action showing it even blocks shell commands etc.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/images\/littlesnitch.jpg\"><\/center><br \/>\nI can really recommend this app, grab a copy if you are concerned about privacy and general security on your Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OS X Operating System might be free of virii and trojans at the moment but I cannot imagine this situation will last. Also being free from malicious code doesn&#8217;t prevent otherwise trustworthy companies from &#8216;phoning home&#8217; as is the case with OS X 10.4.3. In the windows worlds the obvious answer is to just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[123,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}