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A comment on OpenSnitch – A Linux clone of the Little Snitch application firewall.

Re:OpenSnitch – A Linux clone of the Little Snitch applicati... by EdSharkey on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @01:08AM (#14253199)
It is tools like this that make Linux a viable replacement for Windows for desktop use for me. I love running all apps through ZoneAlarm on Windows and this looks like it would be a fine substitute.
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Re:OpenSnitch – A Linux clone of the Little Snitch applicati... by distances on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @02:57AM (#14253597)
Last I heard, ZoneAlarm itself was phoning home. Granted, this was in 2006. Didn't trust it since though.
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Re:OpenSnitch – A Linux clone of the Little Snitch applicati... by lozf on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @04:35AM (#14253979)
As I recall (and just for completeness), Little Snitch phones home too - unless you use it to block itself.

I definitely appreciated it when I was using OS X though.

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Re:OpenSnitch – A Linux clone of the Little Snitch applicati... by omash on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @10:39AM (#14256018)
It was doing an update check apparently, which a lot of software does. I bet anything in the same class as ZoneAlarm phones home.
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