<story><title>LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections</title><url>https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2dvisio</author><text>When I tried pi-hole I was amazed by it. Until the day I discovered someone in China hacked it :-&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;</text></item><item><author>jachee</author><text>I handle this for my whole network with a pi-hole[0].&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pi-hole.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pi-hole.net&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>simongr3dal</author><text>My solution right now (on macOS) is Gas Mask[1] (a menubar hosts file manager) combined with some very nice hosts files[2]. It certainly kills of most of the pop-ups I run into.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;2ndalpha&amp;#x2F;gasmask&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;2ndalpha&amp;#x2F;gasmask&lt;/a&gt;
[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;StevenBlack&amp;#x2F;hosts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;StevenBlack&amp;#x2F;hosts&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>killjoywashere</author><text>What I want for all these services (Little Snitch, ESET, etc) is an EasyList-like ... list. A community-aggregated and reviewed list of servers that don&amp;#x27;t merit my connection. I&amp;#x27;d pay a monthly subscription fee for that.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d also like separate lists for&lt;p&gt;* &amp;quot;this wifi is public, be extra cautious&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;* &amp;quot;this wifi is public, be nice and don&amp;#x27;t torrent, do backups, etc&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;* &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m on a metered connection (e.g. LTE), don&amp;#x27;t run torrents, backups, etc&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;edit: for anyone looking for a monetizable idea: this post has 41, no 42, no 43 points in about an hour. Probably a good idea...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DavideNL</author><text>...and how did you come to the conclusion they hacked the pi-hole?</text></comment>
<story><title>LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections</title><url>https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2dvisio</author><text>When I tried pi-hole I was amazed by it. Until the day I discovered someone in China hacked it :-&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;</text></item><item><author>jachee</author><text>I handle this for my whole network with a pi-hole[0].&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pi-hole.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pi-hole.net&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>simongr3dal</author><text>My solution right now (on macOS) is Gas Mask[1] (a menubar hosts file manager) combined with some very nice hosts files[2]. It certainly kills of most of the pop-ups I run into.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;2ndalpha&amp;#x2F;gasmask&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;2ndalpha&amp;#x2F;gasmask&lt;/a&gt;
[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;StevenBlack&amp;#x2F;hosts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;StevenBlack&amp;#x2F;hosts&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>killjoywashere</author><text>What I want for all these services (Little Snitch, ESET, etc) is an EasyList-like ... list. A community-aggregated and reviewed list of servers that don&amp;#x27;t merit my connection. I&amp;#x27;d pay a monthly subscription fee for that.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d also like separate lists for&lt;p&gt;* &amp;quot;this wifi is public, be extra cautious&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;* &amp;quot;this wifi is public, be nice and don&amp;#x27;t torrent, do backups, etc&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;* &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m on a metered connection (e.g. LTE), don&amp;#x27;t run torrents, backups, etc&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;edit: for anyone looking for a monetizable idea: this post has 41, no 42, no 43 points in about an hour. Probably a good idea...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chewyland</author><text>Sounds like a poor or reused password.</text></comment>