Your Mac Is Phoning Home? Here’s How To Find Out.

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You’re surprised, right? You thought your Mac was ultra secure? No worms. No viruses. No pop-up ads. No trojan horses. No worries. Except for all those applications on your Mac that are going right through your firewall and connecting in the other direction.

Let me do this again.

What Little Snitch does is, well, uh, it’s a snitch for applications that use the Internet to send or receive information without you knowing about it.

You thought the Mac’s firewall woiuld protect you against such dastardly deeds? Yes and no. Yes, it protects quite well against “incoming” attempts to connect to your Mac.

No, there’s no protection whatsoever against “outgoing” attempts to connect your Mac to the Internet or another computer.

Little Snitch changes that.

Objective Development’s web site explains that Little Snitch is an “application supervisor”:

Yes, or much more depending on what applications are on your Mac and what they’re doing. I found a dozen apps that phone home; some were simple checks to see if there’s an update to the application. Other attempts were to a central server to let someone (publisher? developer?) know that I’m using their application.

I paid for it. I use it. I do NOT want anyone to know. Little Snitch prevents that.

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