Little Snitch keeps an eye on your Mac's Internet connections<article>
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After
last week’s column on Apple’s built-in firewall, Frank Lowney asked the following question in the column’s comments section:</p>
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Although, we’re focused on incoming connections here, shouldn’t we also be concerned about outgoing connections as well? This seems especially important where there are data caps or outrageously expensive cellular data plans being used.</p><p>
We need a comprehensive and coordinated gate keeping strategy for all connections.</p>
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Frank raises an interesting and important point. While Apple’s Application Level Firewall is great at putting on a good defense, monitoring your outbound traffic can be enlightening and possibly even a little disturbing. It can clue you in to which of your running applications are accessing and sending data
to the Internet when you might not be expecting it to and it can help you to see if unexpected applications are sending data out when you don’t want them to.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2943633/little-snitch-keeps-an-eye-on-your-macs-internet-connections.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Little Snitch keeps an eye on your Mac's Internet connections
