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Old 03-15-2010, 02:27 PM
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Well, I can certainly say that use of Little Snitch ends up a souce of hassle for me. I think, generally, LS is used by people who are trying to prevent 'pirated' programs from disabling themselves using 'block lists'.

That isn't to say that there are 'reasonable' uses for LS... but we don't play any games, and for us, at least, it's just a PITA.
I got it because of the hype (and my personal paranoia ) regarding its ability to be (in effect) a "reverse firewall" that protects you from the bad guys who somehow sneak malicious Mac spyware (which, BTW, doesn't yet seem to exist—I haven't heard of any, and ClamXav hasn't found any) onto your machine. But so far, all of the alerts I've gotten are generated by the ads that are linked to the emails I receive from my subscriptions to the major tech sites (MacWorld, TechRepublic, etc.) and major retailers (Staples, Sears, etc.) I've dealt with, and the occasional legitimate software version checking and updating activities of some of my installed applications. And while I do "allow" or "deny" as the mood strikes me, it is clearly a major PITA, and, moreover, I've yet to knowingly permanently deny anyone (at least, that's what I see in LS's rules list—the denial to lacey.homeip.net was a careless accident, which I've remedied). So, I'm now giving serious consideration to stop using it (...if I can get over the paranoia that drove me to try it in the first place! ).
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