On: Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extens...

[leokennis]

Little Snitch also nicely shows how Google will make increasingly desperate attempts to invisibly update its software in the background.

It starts with a request to Google.com from Google Software Updater. But if you block that and the follow ups enough times, in the end it will even try curl’ing directly to IP’s...

[Spivak → leokennis]

Or it just assumes that name resolution is broken for some benign reason.

[Zenbit_UX → Spivak]

Exactly, that's just good programming.

[hyperbovine → leokennis]

People write exploits that target Google software. What would you like them to do?