The Mac Malware of 2019

objective-see.com

70 pointsthecosas5 comments

Off topic, but I felt compelled to express my love for the work of this company Objective See.

I've been using their application called Lulu every day, and I cannot imagine working on a Mac without it. So thankful that it exists, and that it's open source!

https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html

"LuLu is the free, open-source macOS firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections, unless explicitly approved by the user."

Windows has simplewall [0] as alternative in case anyone is looking

[0] - https://www.henrypp.org/product/simplewall

How does this compare to Little Snitch?

Not feature-rich as Little Snitch. However, it's free and open source. I primarily use Little Snitch for my iMac and MBP. But use LuLu as well on other machines.

Can highly recommend all the other apps Patrick Wardle (Objective-See) has developed.

it's $45 less, for a start.

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