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Look into the app Little Snitch. It's fantastic! https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

I'm unaffiliated with the owners.

Second Little Snitch.

> NOTE: Corporate IT departments no likee Little Snitch.

Do you have a story to tell us?

I don't have a story but Little Snitch is the kind of tool most corporate users don't need, but that many malicious actors love to use. Sort of like running nmap on your computer, yeah there are legitimate reasons to do so, but you will get a call from IT if you try it.

interesting. don't malicious actors use much more advanced tools than little snitch?

In the case of the company I worked for, they worried as much about insider threats, as they did, external ones.

They didn’t like employees, exploring the network.

Malicious actors use every tool you can imagine, and many you can't.

That's not a very nice thing to say. You don't know me.

I jokingly told a coworker to try nmap when he was trying to figure out a port to use for something legitimate. He was on the phone with the security team seemingly within 90 seconds. I was actually pretty impressed.

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