Little Snitch on Vault 7 Norbert on Little Snitch — March 08, 2017 We’ve been receiving a number of questions regarding Little Snitch being mentioned in the CIA Vault 7 documents that were made public on WikiLeaks. The published documents don’t provide any indications that surveillance agencies were able to circumvent the protection mechanisms of Little Snitch. It’s just recognizable that an understandable interest in such circumvention possibilities exists. We will therefore continue our efforts to shield our product against such desires by applying a range of different protection strategies. In this regard we’d like to emphasize the importance to always install the latest security relevant software updates in a timely manner. If you haven’t already, we recommend turning on automatic software update checks in Little Snitch Configuration > Preferences to make sure you won’t miss any important security updates.
On Gatekeeper and the Lifespan of Little Snitch Rules Johannes on Little Snitch — February 17, 2017 The Protagonists Gatekeeper is a security feature of macOS. Among other things it makes sure that apps that are in quarantine (= were downloaded from the internet or received via AirDrop) are temporarily moved to a private location when launched, until »
Black Friday Sale 2016 Marco on LaunchBar, Little Snitch, Micro Snitch — November 25, 2016 Save 50% on LaunchBar, Little Snitch, and Micro Snitch! Shop now »
Using Swift Protocols to Separate Socket Functionality Marco on Development, Swift — June 09, 2016 This blog post is the fifth in a five part series about POSIX Sockets in Swift and our SocketWrapper library: A POSIX Socket API Wrapper in Swift Modeling Simple Data in Swift: struct versus typealias Low-Level Network Address Resolving in »