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The Good
- Does more than the built-in firewall
- Has three different modes for more specific controls
- The Map lets you see where all the traffic is coming to and going from.
- Customizable features
The Bad
- Buying more than one license can get pricey.
Mind this chatter
Little Snitch is a firewall application and, as you may know, your Mac has a built-in firewall that you can turn on and use to quietly block unauthorized incoming network connections. So why buy a separate app if you already have something built-in? The answer is simple: Little Snitch does more than just block or allow incoming network connections. It gives you detailed information on all your network communication, whether it's from the outside world coming into your Mac or it's being sent from your Mac to anywhere on the internet.
Chatter from your Mac isn't all bad. In fact, most of it is good and necessary. Your Mac regularly checks the App Store to make sure your apps and OS are up to date. You stream music and movies from iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, and Pandora. You send and receive email, messages, and files all as a part of your normal work and play.
However, every web page you connect to also talks to ad servers and every app you open may also send information about you, your Mac, and about the app itself back to the company that created it. Little Snitch logs all this information and lets you look at it, see what the communication is about, and choose when or whether you want to allow your Mac to make that communication in the future.
Simple is as simple does
Little Snitch offers three modes of operation:
- Alert Mode
- Silent Mode—Allow Connections
- Silent Mode—Deny Connections
By default, Little Snitch uses Silent Mode—Allow Connections, which behaves just like Apple's built-in firewall does, which is to say that it assumes any application on your Mac that is properly signed is allowed to send and receive data at will. It also tracks every connection, while allowing all network traffic to freely enter and exit your Mac, so you can look at those connections and decide whether or not you want to make that connection in the future. This mode is the best choice for most users.
Alert Mode asks you to make a choice each time an application attempts to make a connection to the Internet. Once you make a choice, Little Snitch remembers your choices and allows or denies that connection in the future. Initially, if you're just starting to use Little Snitch, this can feel more like Annoying Mode, as you'll need to approve or deny every network connection attempt.
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Silent Mode—Deny Connections is designed for situations where you want to create specific rules about which connections you will allow. Any connections you have not created an explicit rule for will be denied without asking for your approval.
The all seeing eye
The fun begins once Little Snitch is installed. A small menu item appears on the top of your screen and displays a small gauge setting so you know when you're sending and receiving network traffic. Click that menu and you'll see options to change modes and items for Little Snitch's Network Monitor, Rules, and Preferences.
Open the Network Monitor and a new window will open displaying a map of the world centered on your current location with arcs of network traffic traveling from your Mac to various locations throughout the world. A sidebar displays a list of applications sending and receiving traffic. Selecting one of those apps highlights where your traffic is going on the map. Another sidebar on the right displays a Connection Inspector which you use to view general and detailed information about data being sent with specific information about the application selected and why it might be sending or receiving information.
While viewing the Map or using Little Snitch's rules window you can select different apps and processes and use a small switch to allow or deny network traffic by flipping a small Rule Management switch.
Lockdown by location
Little Snitch has a multitude of customizable features, but one of my favorites is Automatic Profile Switching (APS), which allows you to create filtering profiles based on the network you're connected to. Want to be invisible when you're at Starbucks? No problem, you can create a profile for that. Not as worried when you're on your home network? You can create a profile for that. When you hop on a network APS detects where you are and automatically changes your Little Snitch profile to match your settings for the network you're on.
The ultimate lockdown
I wouldn't normally think of a firewall as something fun. It's business, pal. Just business. But that's not true of Little Snitch. Not only is it a great firewall application, it's educational and super fun to use. If you need something more than Apple's built-in firewall or if you need better insight into which applications are sending information from your Mac to servers on the Internet, Little Snitch is the best app I've seen, which makes it the best app for you.
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Little Snitch's primary objective is to monitor processes for internet connections and let the user decide whether to allow or deny them. However, Little Snitch sometimes notices that something is fishy about a program. In this case it wants to let you, the user, know what it has found.
App Translocation warning
This is a hint only, it informs you that permanent rules for the process won't work.
App Translocation is a security mechanism Apple introduced with macOS 10.12 (Sierra). If an application has not been “properly installed”, the operating system maps it to a random path before launching, usually somewhere in
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. This path randomization prevents loading of resources shipped alongside with the application, a mechanism often used by malware. “Properly installed” means that the application must be started from a code-signed disk image or that it must have been copied to a new location in Finder.Why is this important to Little Snitch? Since Little Snitch rules refer to processes by their file system path, rules created for one instance of the application won't work the next time it is launched from a different random path. Luckily, the problem can easily be fixed by moving the application to an other location in Finder (and optionally back to its original position, if you prefer to have it there).
Internationalized domain name warning
This is a hint only, it informs you that the displayed domain may be a look-alike.
Internationalized domain names may contain any Unicode character. However, the Unicode character set contains many very similar looking characters. Using these characters, an attacker can construct a domain which is optically indistinguishable from a popular domain in latin characters (“IDN homograph attack”). Consider the domain “applе.com”. Would you have noticed that the “е” is a cyrillic letter? Little Snitch adds a hint when it detects an internationalized domain name, printing its Punycode representation for detailed analysis.
Suspicious program warning
This is a hint only, it informs you that the process may not be trustworthy.
Almost all programs come with a valid code signature from Apple or a registered developer these days. When Little Snitch finds a program without code signature or signed using a certificate not issued by Apple, it warns in the connection alert. The following cases lead to a warning:
- The program has no code signature at all. It's perfectly OK for a program to have no code signature, but you cannot know whether the program has been tampered with or whether it's a look-alike trojan with malicious code.
- The program has a code signature, but the cryptographic verification failed. This means that either the program's executable code itself or a library it has loaded has been modified since the signature was made. You should be worried and research the cause of the modification. Even if there is no malware involved, the files on your disk might be damaged.
- The program has a code signature, but the cryptographic verification failed because it has loaded a library without code signature. This is most likely an error made by the developer. Some developers put libraries into folders where they are not automatically code-signed by Xcode. Little Snitch tells you where the library is located. Inspect it to find out whether it is a legitimate part of the program or whether it is malware. Note that unsigned code always bears the risk that (malicious) modifications cannot be recognized.
- The program has a code signature, but it was made with a development certificate not meant for production releases. This is probably a mistake by the developer, a debug build was released instead of a production build. If you are a developer, you see this warning for your debug builds. Little Snitch warns because development certificates are easier to obtain or steal.
- The program has a code signature, but the certificate chain is formally invalid. An invalid certificate chain may contain certificates which are not made for issuing other certificates or it may have other formal errors. A popular candidate for a formally invalid certificate is a self-signed certificate. You should be very cautious because this type of signature has no advantage over unsigned code or ad-hoc signed code. Maybe somebody wanted to pretend the program had a valid code signature.
- The program has a code signature, but the root of the certificate chain is not Apple. When Apple issues a certificate, they ensure that it contains the developer's real name and a Team Identifier. Certificates issued by other authorities may not contain this information or the information may not be correct. Little Snitch does therefore not know whether the certificate can be trusted.
- The program terminated before Little Snitch could inspect its code signature. You can safely cancel the connection alert because the program has terminated anyway. This case should not happen, but we cannot completely rule out that it occurs.
Program modification warning
This warning is not just a hint, it requires that you make a decision.
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Before Little Snitch applies an allow rule, it checks the identity of the program. If this check fails and the identity has changed or cannot be confirmed, it shows an alert with a warning. There are several types of identity check, consisting of several conditions each. This results in a big matrix of possible error messages. All these messages explain how the check was made, what was expected and how the program failed to meet the expectation.
Whatever the message of the warning is, there are usually three choices how to proceed:
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- Deny this and every future network connection of the program. When you choose this option, an extra-high priority rule is created which denies all network connections. While the program is detached from the network, you have time to research the issue. If you later decide that the modification was OK and you want to allow connections again, open Little Snitch Configuration, search for the program and double-click the extra-high priority deny rule. Little Snitch now gives you the option to update the identity check and remove the extra-high priority deny rule.
- Accept the change, apply the rule and update the identity check to match the current version of the program. This option is only available if an identity check can be made for the currently running process. Choose this option of you know that the modification was legitimate.
- Disable identity checks altogether. If you frequently update a program without code signature, it may be inconvenient to update the check for every new version. Or if the program always loads an unsigned library and the code signature becomes invalid, you may decide to disable identity checks and accept the additional risk.
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