![]() Text editors and formatting software, though? Well … yeah. Ceaselessly.Īs I noted, some of those apps have an obvious need to talk to the ‘net because that’s what they do for a living. But Little Snitch logged them all and let none of their traffic pass from my computer until I okayed it. Ecto (blogging software … though I haven’t touched it for, like, six hours)Īnd that’s the truncated list.iCal (Really? Oh … right … shared calendars).Some are obvious, because their raison d’être is Internet access. ![]() Here’s a list of apps that set Little Snitch off in the first ten minutes I used it. Handier yet, Little Snitch will offer a variety of choices for dealing with that connection - from denying that app access to the Internet for all time to letting it have carte blanche. ![]() We’ll get back to that.Īs Little Snitch’s developers promise, it “alerts you on outgoing network connections.” What that means is that each time a program running on your system tries to send traffic over a network interface, Little Snitch notices, stops the traffic and tells you. ![]() I thought of those lyrics about five minutes into my first session with Objective Development’s Little Snitch, a Macintosh network monitoring tool that, as its Web page promises, “alerts you on outgoing network connections.” But don’t take that lyrical snippet as a sign of disapproval over the product, just take it as a cautionary bit of advice you’ll want to keep in mind before you embark on what will be a brief period of learning what a sausage factory of outbound network connections modern Mac software is. ![]()
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