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For those Mac users who are unfamiliar with objective-see... Their free security tools for MacOS are a boon to the community. I think that they are right up there with "little snitch" and the like, especially since they spare the user the typical IDS data overload.

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Thank you for highlighting this! I wasn't aware of Patrick's software until you mentioned it, but there's a lot of great stuff there:

- KnockKnock: perform system scan to list everything you have installed, like kexts, browser components, startup scripts, etc.

- BlockBlock: continuously monitor system for changes to startup scripts

- TaskExplorer: tool to examine a running processes

- Oversight: continuously monitor microphone and webcam activity

Nice UX too.

Also Patrick Wardle used to work in NASA and NSA and been to lot of conferences.

Very interesting indeed. It reminded me of SysInternals before Microsoft bought them.

I not longer use macOS, but Block Block looks pretty interesting. I couldn't tell from their website, but is it intended to eventually be a commercial product once out of beta? I didn't seem like it was open source.

Not at all. "Objective-See was created to provide simple, yet effective OS X security tools. Always free of charge - no strings attached!" [0] At the moment you may support him @patron [1]

[0] - https://objective-see.com/about.html [1] - https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=4857001

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