One thing I wonder about though is how well they're prepared to deal with lying, because this seems like it could possibly open up a potential risk for social engineering. The spirit of transparency is a good one too. Research Assistant is a useful feature and at first blush this seems to have the potential to make it even better, assuming LS has enough market penetration to actually get more then a handful of devs to provide a description. A description of the policy file format will be provided soon.
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Little Snitch will then display that information to users, helping them in their decision how to handle a particular connection. > Third party developers can now bundle their apps with an Internet Access Policy file containing descriptions of all network connections that are possibly triggered by their app. They're making an effort to open it up and turn LS4 into a bit more of a platform, allowing 3rd party devs to make specific descriptive information available: I'm particularly curious how their improved Research Assistant 2.0 will turn out. Their main landing page has been updated for LS4 and has a nice general summary of new features with screenshots, but trying to submit that link just goes back to the HN discussion on LS3 five months back. LS4 has had a few private betas up until now, but it's in public beta at this point and some of the new stuff they've been working on is pretty interesting.