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Why I’m skipping the proprietary "Little Snitch" for Linux
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this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2026
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I'm confused by this comment, (and the up votes) OpenSnitch is the fully open source application. It even says so in the article.
"If I ever needed to track down which specific application is making suspicious outbound connections, I would turn to OpenSnitch, the fully open-source, community-driven application firewall for Linux. It is not as polished as the new Little Snitch port, but every line of its code is open for inspection and it does not ask for blind trust."