Little Snitch comes to Linux, but the core logic is closed source(the.unknown-universe.co.uk)
44 pointsby TheIPW4 hours ago7 comments
  • senojsitruc12 minutes ago
    I wrote GlowWorm ~20 years ago, duplicating much of the LittleSnitch functionality at the time.

    I remember discovering remote kernel debugging across ethernet; it was magical.

    https://glowworm.us

    • guessmyname9 minutes ago
      When I click on the “Download / Buy Now” link [1], Safari tries to download it instead of visiting the page. I tried with cURL and discovered that the page is returning a “content-type: application/octet-stream” header, which makes no sense because the page is just HTML. Also, I can see some portions of raw PHP code in the HTTP response, so I think your web server is not interpreting PHP as it is supposed to and instead returning the raw content from the PHP file.

      In fact, every PHP file is being leaked, for example, this file [2] contains a $hash_salt , which is supposedly being used to “prevent[s] users guessing filenames and make data more secure”

      [1] https://glowworm.us/securimage/download.php

      [2] https://glowworm.us/securimage/securimage.php

  • roscas2 hours ago
    Glad you also talk about OpenSnitch. It is critical to have it installed.

    OpenSnitch and PiHole are simply a must on every network.

    • klueincan hour ago
      for folks on the mac, Lulu has been a great option too. https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu
      • Barbing24 minutes ago
        objective-see is carrying an immense weight for Mac users

        Security: BlockBlock, KnockKnock, RansomWhere...

        System/Productivity: TaskExplorer...

        Yes times 4

    • benf762 hours ago
      Can you elaborate on ideal pairing?
  • kelsey9876543130 minutes ago
    last thing in the world i want is to install proprietary software on linux. even less so is something meant to be security software and interacting directly with my network stack.
  • bornfreddy20 minutes ago
    > ...my primary line of defence is AdGuard Home. By handling privacy at the DNS level...

    To each their own, I guess, but that would be a hard pass from me. One example from mobile: FF on android keeps trying to connect to its various services (like firefox.settings.services.mozilla.net). For privacy reasons, I use NetGuard to block this and other similar domains. But there is a gotcha: there are sites (like seekingalpha.com) who refuse to load if access to these same domains is blocked - even on a completely different browser! With NetGuard I can still visit those sites in the secondary browser while blocking Mozilla tracking. With DNS blocking I wouldn't be able to do that.

    • TheIPW13 minutes ago
      NetGuard is a solid tool for Android, but managing a whole home lab is a different beast. I've got dozens of VMs and containers tucked away in Proxmox; if I tried to micro-manage per-app permissions for every single one of them, I’d never get anything else done.

      I prefer to take the hit on those rare site-breaking edge cases if it means I have a single, transparent "source of truth" at the DNS level. It's definitely a trade-off, but I'd rather spend my time building things than perpetually tweaking firewall rules for every new service I spin up.

  • lapcat2 hours ago
    See "Little Snitch for Linux" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697870

    Also:

    > Little Snitch is not there to replace OpenSnitch. It's just an additional option you can choose from. Some people might prefer it, others not.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701918

    > But I currently can't make the entire project Open Source. My other option would be to keep it completely private (wrote it mostly for myself in the first place).

    > I think it's still better to make it public and only partially Open Source so that some people can benefit from it. If you don't trust us, that's completely reasonable, just don't install it.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701740

  • knowaveragejoean hour ago
    One nice thing about LittleSnitch on linux is that it comes with a web UI by default. Is there anything like that for headless systems using OpenSnitch?
    • TheIPWan hour ago
      I get the appeal; the Little Snitch UI is undeniably shiny. But for the headless Linux nodes in my Proxmox setup, I’ve never really felt the need for a proprietary dashboard just to see my network state. I’d much rather export my logs to something like Grafana or just check my AdGuard dashboard at the edge. It feels more "Linux" to keep the tools transparent and open than to invite a mystery binary onto my system just for the sake of a pretty graph.
  • melon_tuskan hour ago
    How anyone could trust OpenSnitch is beyond me.