If not, I suppose there's no need to look into this app. If these questions resonate with you, a firewall is probably a good idea. Is it really in my interest that programs have the ability, without being asked, to send arbitrary, often even personal or confidential information from my computer to unknown third parties on the Internet? What steps will reproduce the problem Many tech savvy Mac users install an outbound firewall like Little Snitch.Is it really necessary, that programs periodically connect to the vendor’s server for software update checks, which yields a detailed statistics about when and how often I use their program?. Why does my router’s network LED blink on every occasion, although I’m not actively working on my computer? Little Snitch is an advance firewall application exclusively for OS X that allows you to control when an application can communicate to the Internet.The 10th Anniversary page on the Little Snitch website offers these three questions, which led to the development of the app: I don't really need another firewall as Windows 7's default firewall works fine, just Little Snitch's feature that prompts the user if a program wants to connect to the Internet, provide info about the connection attempt, allows the user to deny the connection attempt, and preferably with an option to remember the decision made by the user. Why use a firewall at all? There's security, of course, but there's also the idea that you should have control of what you computer says to the outside world.
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