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Re:Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser usi... by krackers on Thursday July 13, 2023 @05:41PM (#36716411)
How _do_ you have it set up? What does errant request mean in this case? A request to a domain that you haven't allowed before?
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Re:Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser usi... by inferiorhuman on Thursday July 13, 2023 @06:22PM (#36716952)
Ah so I just dug into the rules. What happened was a plugin made a DNS request to mozilla.cloudflare-dns.com. I've nothing special set up for Firefox, but basically no rules for plugin-container, so when a plugin tries to make a DNS request Little Snitch pops up an alert.

Not great I suppose, but better than nothing. Generally what I'll see for Firefox itself are requests for non 80/443 ports.

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