<story><title>Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions</title><url>https://blog.obdev.at/little-snitch-and-the-deprecation-of-kernel-extensions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beckler</author><text>Little Snitch 4 is a rather impressive piece of software. The map is my favorite part. It&amp;#x27;s not always accurate, but it&amp;#x27;s absolutely wild to see the places apps want to ship data off to.&lt;p&gt;Also if you interface directly to your WAN, you can see all the bots&amp;#x2F;worms&amp;#x2F;etc that try to connect to your IP. I got a surprising amount of netbios queries from Iran (I&amp;#x27;m assuming from EternalBlue based malware trying to connect), but I highly recommend NOT doing this. It&amp;#x27;s the wild west outside your firewall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qwerty456127</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s the wild west outside your firewall.&lt;p&gt;You mean outside my $5 NAT WiFi router last updated 6 years ago (because the manufacturer won&amp;#x27;t maintain it any more and the ISP never gave me the admin password anyway)?</text></comment>
<story><title>Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions</title><url>https://blog.obdev.at/little-snitch-and-the-deprecation-of-kernel-extensions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beckler</author><text>Little Snitch 4 is a rather impressive piece of software. The map is my favorite part. It&amp;#x27;s not always accurate, but it&amp;#x27;s absolutely wild to see the places apps want to ship data off to.&lt;p&gt;Also if you interface directly to your WAN, you can see all the bots&amp;#x2F;worms&amp;#x2F;etc that try to connect to your IP. I got a surprising amount of netbios queries from Iran (I&amp;#x27;m assuming from EternalBlue based malware trying to connect), but I highly recommend NOT doing this. It&amp;#x27;s the wild west outside your firewall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zomg</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been using Little Snitch since 2.0 and I agree, it&amp;#x27;s very impressive software. I had the same reaction to seeing the map features -- eye opening to say the least and a very, very interesting feature!</text></comment>