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drum55today at 2:55 AM4 repliesview on HN

It’s a false sense of security, more or less. If an application wants to talk to a C2 they don’t have to make a connection at all, just proxy a connection through something already allowed, or tunnel through DNS. Those juicy cryptocurrency keys? Pop Safari with them in the URL and they’re sent to the malicious actor instantly. If you’re owned Little Snitch does nothing at all for you except give you the impression that you’re not.


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nickorlowtoday at 3:54 AM

Especially in this case where the attackers could've proxied you to their malicious servers through npp's good/trusted servers

g-b-rtoday at 6:26 AM

That's at the very least harder and less likely; security is not all or nothing.

worthless-trashtoday at 3:05 AM

I find it difficult to believe that there is levels of cooperation between different companies that would allow this to work.

Source. I work for a company for longer than the internet has been alive.

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