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Objective Development
Company blog · obdev.at/blogsecuritysystems
Objective Development is the company blog at obdev.at, writing about security and systems. Since 2009, 205 different Hacker News readers have linked it 258 times, most often “Little Snitch 3 – Protect your privacy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-08, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Little Snitch 3 – Protect your privacy54 people · 58 mentions · first linked 2015-08-07
- Little Snitch 317 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2009-05-17
- /products/launchbar/index.html11 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2017-09-25
- Micro Snitch – Know when someone spies on you10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2016-06-05
- Know when someone spies on you through your Mac9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2015-06-05
- V-USB – A Firmware-Only USB Driver for Atmel AVR Microcontrollers9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-06-22
- Launchbar 6 has been released8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2010-01-06
- Little Snitch for Linux – Because Nothing Else Came Close5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2026-04-08
- Little Snitch 4 is now available in final and stable version5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-07-05
- /products/launchbar/index.html5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-05-01
What Hacker News says?
Might I suggest: https://www.obdev.at/products/microsnitch/index.html
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on “Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera”Submitted Warning: DNS encryption in Little Snitch 6.1 may occasionally fail as a story · 535 points
HN discussionI like the effort started by Objective Development (creators of little snitch) called IPA: Internet Access Policy [0]. An IAP is a document that defines to what endpoints does an application connect too. Apple should get on this bandwagon and enforce it and the OS level, so that any application must ship this IAP document and only be allowed to connect the endpoints listed in that document. Furthermore a user should…
Comment linking /iap/index.html
on “Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account”Submitted Little Snitch 3 – Protect your privacy as a story · 377 points
HN discussionI had toyed with using Little Snitch, https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html , to let me know what connections each program is making but after like a day it was just too complex to get going. Wonder if the LitteSnitch list of procs had the Zoom Daemon.
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on “Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server”Submitted Micro Snitch – Know when someone spies on you as a story · 249 points
HN discussionI use Little Snitch[1] (and its sibling Micro Snitch[2]) for filtering connections at the system level. I don't interact with it too often though, because I rarely install new apps. Not to say /etc/hosts doesn't work, these days I just find I prefer things with better UX. --- [1] https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html [2] https://www.obdev.at/products/microsnitch/index.html
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on “Blocklist Facebook domains”Submitted A memory leak in Apple's Network Extension framework as a story · 224 points
HN discussionIf you have an intel mac, you can still install LS 4.x (once you have booted into recovery to permit the kext) on Big Sur. HN user miles pointed this out recently, and it is awesome. https://www.obdev.at/support/littlesnitch/245913651253917 It's 5.x that uses the new restricted APIs. I'm going to contact the developers and ask for an ARM build of 4.x so the same trick will work on M1, at least until Apple forbids al…
Comment linking /support/littlesnitch/245913651253917
on “Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery”Submitted Little Snitch: Network Monitor and Application Firewall for macOS as a story · 188 points
HN discussionhttp://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
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on “Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire”Submitted What’s New in Little Snitch 4 as a story · 133 points
HN discussionThere is a section about being required by the EU to determine location for VAT collection purposes. If their payment processor can’t determine your location sufficiently, then they have to collect data identifying your location and store it for tax/proof purposes. That’s something they don’t want to ever have to do, obviously. Here’s a link to the policy: https://www.obdev.at/privacy/index.html
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on “Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal”Submitted V-USB – A Firmware-Only USB Driver for Atmel AVR Microcontrollers as a story · 117 points
HN discussionI can't imagine using a Mac without Little Snitch: https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch Among other things, it is disturbing how chatty a lot of things are. (Did you know Apple Mail keeps track of which account you email different people with and wants to send that to configuration.apple.com, even if you have carefully disabled everything Icloud related?) There's a similar tool for Linux, but I usually keep a netw…
Comment linking /products/littlesnitch
on “Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal”Submitted LittleSnitch for Linux as a story · 37 points
HN discussionIt does: https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/releasenotes3.htm...
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on “LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections”Submitted Little Snitch 6.0 Released as a story · 31 points
HN discussionhttps://www.obdev.at/privacy-policy.html
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on “LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections”Submitted Little Snitch Mini as a story · 30 points
HN discussionWell I'm assuming things like this helps: We do not share nor sell your data. https://www.obdev.at/privacy-policy.html However you may be referring to the same notion that nothing stops someone from murdering someone else.
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on “LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections”Submitted Little Snitch 4 is now available in final and stable version as a story · 28 points
HN discussionI use Little Snitch for OSX: http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
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on “I’m Terrified of My New TV”Submitted Warning: macOS Sequoia 15 may bypass DNS encryption as a story · 27 points
HN discussionA small aside: on the Mac, Micro Snitch [1] can let you know about any app that accesses the mic or webcam. It can use overlays, notifications, and/or just the systray to indicate that an app is using the mic/webcam. It also has an activity log that can you show past use. [1] https://www.obdev.at/products/microsnitch/index.html
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on “Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing”Submitted What happens on your device, stays on your device – until it doesn't as a story · 17 points
HN discussionI got Micro Snitch [1] as part of a bundle with Little Snitch years ago and have just had it running for cases like this. I'm fortunate to not have run into this issue, but I like the peace of mind of knowing exactly if I do. [1]: https://obdev.at/products/microsnitch/index.html
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on “Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone when not in a meeting?”Submitted Little Snitch for Mac as a story · 10 points
HN discussionOr MicroSnitch https://www.obdev.at/products/microsnitch/index.html
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on “Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68”Submitted Apple's built-in macOS firewall breaks third-party firewalls as a story · 6 points
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