Comments on: Little Snitch deserves a post on it’s own. http://blog.cocoia.com/2007/04/24/little-snitch-deserves-a-post-on-its-own/ The Cocoia Blog is the website of Sebastiaan de With, a Dutch Icon and Interface designer. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:50:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: sebastiaan http://blog.cocoia.com/2007/04/24/little-snitch-deserves-a-post-on-its-own/#comment-1672 sebastiaan Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:45:08 +0000 http://blog.cocoia.com/?p=72#comment-1672 Guns, from consequent testing with the Terminal and Apple's provided tools, it seems Little Snitch traps the signals sent, resulting in a Daemon not killed. I think I should look even further into this, because it seems this app is truly a pearl of application security. Guns, from consequent testing with the Terminal and Apple’s provided tools, it seems Little Snitch traps the signals sent, resulting in a Daemon not killed. I think I should look even further into this, because it seems this app is truly a pearl of application security.

]]> By: guns http://blog.cocoia.com/2007/04/24/little-snitch-deserves-a-post-on-its-own/#comment-1670 guns Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:30:05 +0000 http://blog.cocoia.com/?p=72#comment-1670 I read somewhere that Little Snitch runs as an user-owned process, which means that potential malware could use a killall command to stop Little Snitch. Is this true? Does it run reliably under root (I don't see why not)? If it is the case, you should advise your readers to "chown Little\ Snitch.app root" if they're really paranoid. guns I read somewhere that Little Snitch runs as an user-owned process, which means that potential malware could use a killall command to stop Little Snitch. Is this true? Does it run reliably under root (I don’t see why not)?

If it is the case, you should advise your readers to “chown Little\ Snitch.app root” if they’re really paranoid.

guns

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