{"id":212,"date":"2015-06-01T10:23:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T18:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/little-snitch\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T15:17:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T23:17:39","slug":"little-snitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/little-snitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Snitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obdev.at\/products\/littlesnitch\/index.html\">Little Snitch<\/a> for Mac OSX Little Snitch is a network monitoring program for Mac OS X developed by Objective Development.<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a shareware program that lets you know when another program tries to &#8220;phone home&#8221; or access an outbound port on your computer. You can easily install the program by downloading the .dmg file then dragging it into the applications folder. While this may seem like a superfluous program to have on a Mac, it is nice to be able to decide when and how certain programs access the net. Little Snitch isn&#8217;t a firewall, instead it uses the programs name to let you know what&#8217;s happening. For example, does the realplayer really NEED to phone home? You can decide. Although malware is limited for OSX, trojans can still potentially be downloaded and installed by the user. <\/p>\n<p>Little Snitch will detect the network activity and let you know so you can block it. In demo mode Little Snitch is fully functional, but only for 3 hours after start up. You can easily reset this timer (they even tell you how) so that it will run for another 3 hours after that. If you decide to purchase, it&#8217;s $24.95. Not too expensive. It&#8217;s important to keep the dmg file after downloading in case you want to uninstall. This is one of the programs you can&#8217;t just drag to the trash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Snitch for Mac OSX Little Snitch is a network monitoring program for Mac OS X developed by Objective Development. It&#8217;s a shareware program that lets you know when another program tries to &#8220;phone home&#8221; or access an outbound port on your computer. You can easily install the program by downloading the .dmg file then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}