Maintaining at least some privacy on the internet
A useful way to monitor access attempts to your computer is Little
Snitch 2. LS2 is described by its developer as follows:
“As soon as you’re connected to the Internet, applications
can potentially send whatever information they want to wherever they want.Sometimes they do this for good reason, on your explicit request. But often they don’t. Little Snitch allows you to intercept these
unwanted connection attempts, and lets you decide how to proceed.Little Snitch informs you whenever a program attempts to establish an outgoing Internet connection. You can then choose to allow
or deny this connection, or define a rule how to handle similar, future connection attempts. This reliably prevents private data from
being sent out without your knowledge. Little Snitch runs inconspicuously in the background and it can also detect network related
activity of viruses, trojans and other malware.”
Here’s a recent report that indicates Adobe CS3 InDesign calls
home to a web monitoring/marketing agency when the user opens InDesign. The IP number given by Little Snitch, upon an IP
search, identified the agency as Omniture. Is Adobe a client of Omniture or Ominture a client of Adobe?