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   Little Snitch 3.1

   Agen G. N. Schmitz

   While it's been possible to use profiles in the [1]Little Snitch
   traffic monitoring utility to create a set of rules that limit
   connections, you still had to remember to manually switch to that
   profile. With Little Snitch 3.1, Objective Development adds a new
   Automatic Profile Switching capability that enables you to assign a
   network (such as your home Wi-Fi network or a coffee shop hotspot) to a
   specific profile. When you first connect to a network, an alert window
   pops up to ask what profile you want to assign to the network. You can
   also choose to do nothing or configure a default profile that will be
   used for all unknown networks. Additionally, no network traffic is
   allowed while the alert window is open to protect against email and
   file synchronization accounts from sending and receiving data,
   regardless of rules. (For more background on the new Automatic Profile
   Switching feature, see this Objective Development [2]blog post.) Other
   changes in Little Snitch 3.1 include an improved Restore Factory
   Defaults feature, a bug fix for a rare issue that could cause a kernel
   panic, and an updated help section (covering the addition of Automatic
   Profile Switching). ($34.95 new, free update, 13.2 MB, [3]release
   notes)

References

   1. http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
   2. http://blog.obdev.at/?p=44
   3. http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/releasenotes3.html

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