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Re:OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch appli... by kccqzy on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:01PM (#22208034)
It used to be much more useful when apps themselves make connections to their own servers.

Nowadays everyone seems to ask nsurlsessiond to make a connection to AWS on port 443.

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Re:OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch appli... by mokus on Saturday February 01, 2020 @10:17AM (#22210910)
Any equivalent behavior on Linux could fairly easily be intercepted anyway by adding hooks to the equivalent service process though, right?
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