Tags: Little Snitch, Mac OS X Leopard, Privacy

Little Snitch 2 protects private data from undesirable transmission

* Objective Development releases Little Snitch 2
* Totally overhauled application is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
* Additional features give more control about outgoing network connections

As soon as a computer is connected to the Internet, applications can potentially send information to any server they want. Little Snitch reliably informs the user about all attempts to establish an outgoing internet connection and allows in this way exact control about the network activity of the computer. As soon as an application attempts to establish a network connection, Little Snitch shows a connection alert asking the user, if he wants to allow or deny the connection – optionally once, until the application is finished or permanent.

Improved usability and new features

While Little Snitch 1.0 was working as a simple system preference module, with Version 2 the Objective Development Software GmbH presents a fully-fledged application with improved usability and additional features. Due to predefined “smart rule suggestions” Little Snitch 2 facilitates for less experienced users a reasonable choice for each connection query.

The completely new designed application interface lists all defined rules and allows a user-specific configuration. Trusted applications can be granted specific permissions, while others simply can be prevented from establishing particular internet connections at all.

Little Snitch introduces a new network monitor, which can be activated through the menu bar. In a semitransparent window the monitor shows detailed information about the complete in- and outgoing network traffic and gives in this way an overview about the current data transfer of all applications. Even if the network monitor is not shown, two colored gauges in the menu bar still indicate the network activities.

Some further improvements of Little Snitch 2:

* Considerably improved traffic filtering
* IPv6 support
* Compatibility with Apples new Operating System Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
* New, good structured program help

All functions and features of Little Snitch 2 can be activated and configured very flexible. The well designed and easy to use security tool not only allows Mac power-users but also less experienced Mac users to gain control about their data traffic and to manage them individually.

The price of a full version of Little Snitch 2 is USD 24.95, the upgrade from an older version costs US 12.95. Owners of Little Snitch 1 with a license key starting with the characters “32″ can use this license key to activate Little Snitch 2 for free.

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Contact:
Johannes Tiefenbrunner, CEO
Objective Development Software GmbH
1020 Vienna, Grosse Schiffgasse 1A/7, Austria
tiefenbrunner {at} obdev(.)com
http://www.obdev.com