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I am posting these instructions in response to a recent tweet and the occasional mailing list query.

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Upon first launch of Little Snitch, it is reasonable for a VO User to assume the app is not accessible because it is not possible to locate or interact with any parts of the app in it's default setting; however, , much of Little Snitch is actually quite accessible if you can find someone with enough sight who can spare a few minutes to tick a single checkbox within the app. I’ve included instructions to do this below.

Note that this is neither a review, an endorsement nor an app entry for Little Snitch. If you want more information on the app, it is available in droves through your favorite search engine.

Also note that this app is not a toy. This is a firewall and misconfiguration can create serious communication problems on your Mac. OS X comes with good firewall capabilities already enabled, and they are sufficient for the vast majority of Users.

The initial installation process for this app is accessible, but I strongly recommend not installing it unless you have enough sight or have a sighted person available to enable VO access by performing post-installation steps 2 through 4 below. Until you've enabled VO access for this app, it is possible Little Snitch might start interrupting network communications with no way for a blind User to know what is happening or to independently reverse the firewall behavior.

The following installation and configuration instructions assume Little Snitch version 3.5.1 and Mavericks 10.9.5. The app is supported under Yosemite, but I've not tested it.

1. Install Little Snitch and restart the Mac when prompted.

2. Launch 'Little Snitch Configuration.app' from the Applications folder.

3. Open the Little Snitch Preferences.

4. In the Security tab, tick the checkbox labeled “Allow GUI Scripting..” This is the step that will enable VO to interact with most parts of Little Snitch. You might need to restart the Mac again at this point in order for the change to take effect.

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Once you've enabled GUI scripting, you should find that most important parts of the app, such as the popup notifications, the details, radio buttons, checkboxes and other elements within those notifications, the preference panes, the rules table and editor, and the menu extras, are accessible to VO. One part of the app which I’m pretty sure is not VO accessible is the Network Monitor screen.

HTH, YMMV and caveat emptor.

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When I reviewed Objective Development Software GmbH’s Little Snitch 1.2 for Macworld two years ago, it helpfully filled a gap in the ipfw firewall software Apple provides with Mac OS X. The built-in firewall monitored, and blocked, only incoming network traffic, and Little Snitch was one of the available options for dealing with outbound network traffic. With Little Snitch 2 (; $25), Objective Development has delivered a worthy successor, with more-informative alerts to the user, more ways of seeing what traffic is coming from your Mac, and more pre-configured rules for common types of network traffic.

As with Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4), the firewall software Apple provides with Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) is designed to screen incoming network traffic—attempts to access your computer over its network ports. Such incoming traffic can be “safe”; for example, instant messages from a friend, visits to Web pages you’ve published using Web Sharing, or your own file-sharing connections when you’re away from your desk. But other incoming connection attempts may be unwanted, and that’s what a firewall is designed to protect against.

By contrast, most outbound network connections originate with software running on your computer, such as when you send e-mail or an instant message, when you visit a Web site, or when you print a document to a shared printer.

If all outbound connections were so obvious, there’d be no cause for concern, but more and more software is designed to quietly make outgoing connections without our knowledge. In a world with more and more concerns about privacy, not to mention worries about malware and viruses, many of us prefer to make our own decisions about what outgoing connections are OK, rather than have them made for us.

Enter Little Snitch, which watches for outgoing network connections and clears them with the user before allowing them to proceed. The developers have pre-configured Little Snitch to recognize and allow several sorts of connections that assumed to be safe, such as Safari attempting to connect to any remote server on port 80 (the TCP/IP port commonly used for Web connections) and Mail attempting to send and receive email. But new, unrecognized types of connections will generate an onscreen warning and—just as important—a request for the user’s intervention.

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When a questionable outgoing connection is detected, Little Snitch presents you with a dialog asking you whether or not you want to allow that connection. You can allow or deny the connection just this one time, until the program quits, or forever; and you can specify whether the program should be allowed to make any connection, any connections on this particular port, any connections to this IP address or domain name, or just this specific connection—on this port to this address. Little Snitch’s 2’s warning dialog, which displays a large icon of the program trying to make a connection, as well as larger type, is an improvement over the previous version’s and makes it especially easy to tell what you’re approving (or disallowing).

Most of the time, you’ll want to allow programs you regularly use to make their typical connections “forever.” For example, I want Meteorologist to always be allowed to retrieve weather updates from weather.com. But the above screenshot shows the second alert for Meteorologist—after I’d already approved connections to weather.com—as the program attempted to connect to sourceforge.net. My guess is that Meteorologist is trying to “phone home,” a general term used to describe programs trying to communicate with their own developers.

Such connections are usually perfectly innocent; for example, many software titles these days can automatically check the developer’s server for new versions and then notify you when an updated version is available. However, I prefer when programs let me make that decision, rather than making it for me. In other cases, developers may be collecting information about your computer, so they can tell, for example, how many people are running their software on Tiger vs. Leopard, or on a PowerPC vs. an Intel Mac. Even if such intentions are innocent, or even desirable, I’d like to know, and I’d like to decide whether or not to allow such actions. What’s more, in some environments—government, military, or some businesses—there may be other security concerns that dictate whether or not such actions can occur.

Even more critical, Little Snitch has the capability to warn you if a