![]() Because even if they don’t need to talk to the network to do what you use them for, they’re probably talking to their developers to see if there’s a new version available for you to download (using, for instance, the Sparkle module) or even (though not, as far as I know with BBEdit or TextSoap) to verify your licenses. 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. ![]() Others might momentarily surprise you:Īnd that’s the truncated list. 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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