The folks at Objective Development (developers of LaunchBar, the first thing I install on my Macs) have updated Little Snitch, the outgoing connection filter, to version 2.0. Apple’s firewall (theoretically) keeps connections from the outside from coming in. However, if you’re really security conscious, you also want to keep control over what your applications communicate to the world. Little Snitch helps you do that by alerting you to attempted outgoing connections, allowing you to specify which applications can talk to the internet at large.
This latest version of Little Snitch is Leopard compatible (natch), improves traffic filtering, adds IPv6 support, and a host of new monitoring features. Upgrades from 1.x cost a mere $12.95 and a new license costs only $24.95. You won’t see me pitching third party firewall software, but Little Snitch is a great addition for OS X security.
Like I said over at MacWorld...
That sucks. I have to pay another $12 to have a bug fixed?
LS no longer work on Leopard. It worked fine on Tiger, now that I have installed Leopard, LS doesn't do squat. As far as I'm concerened the functionality has been broken. Leopard support should be a free upgrade. If I can't continue to use the 1x version that I paid for then I don't think I should have to pay extra to have 2.0. What a scam. When Leoaprd goes 10.5.1 will we have to pay another $12 to have LS fixed again?
I'm not bitching about the $12, I'm bitching about the fact that they won't fix 1x and that I'm being forced into paying for a new version. I'm happy with 1x. Maybe I don't want the new features that come with 2.0. Maybe I'm happy with the way it is now, and I would be happy to keep running it as is.
That's just BS. In a nutshell, "Oh, I'm sorry, the new OS broke my application, and you'll have to pay more for me to fix it."
Bad business, and programming ethics if you ask me.