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Re:Even with a VPN, open Wi-Fi exposes users by steckerbrett on Saturday June 13, 2015 @07:58AM (#9710760)
Little Snitch is one of my favorite pieces of software, it is truly amazing how noisy most software is. Without it, your ISP knows even what programs you have open because they call home every 15 minutes for stupid reasons.
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Re:Even with a VPN, open Wi-Fi exposes users by gwu78 on Saturday June 13, 2015 @02:07PM (#9711926)
"... stupid reasons."

Do you think developers assume you will not notice or will not care?

In my experience, most if not all of this software uses DNS for the attempted dial outs. Running my own DNS makes blocking easy.

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Re:Even with a VPN, open Wi-Fi exposes users by steckerbrett on Sunday June 14, 2015 @04:57AM (#9714247)
Both.
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