I’d suggest the use of Little Snitch. I’ve been using it for years and it’s 
perfect!

https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html 
<https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html>

Disclaimer: I’m only a happy user!

mc




> On 23 Feb 2017, at 19:43, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Feb 22, 2017, at 10:11 PM, @lbutlr <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Is there an inkjet printer (Brother, Canon, Epson) that can be installed 
>>> without phoning home?
>> 
>> I have two Brother's. They connect to my LAN, they do not connect to the 
>> Internet.
> 
> This made me wonder about something... There's really nothing to stop a 
> piece-of-junk HP printer from sending back any and all kinds of information 
> over an internet-connected wifi network, right? I mean, the user would have 
> no way to know that this is going on, or to what extent. You would have to 
> set up a firewall router between the wifi modem and the internet connection, 
> and then do some packet-sniffing. Even then, the communications are probably 
> encrypted. No wonder many of the newer printers have done away with the USB 
> connection and support wifi only. Scary stuff.
> 
> -Carl
> 
> _______________________________________________
> MacOSX-talk mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

_______________________________________________
MacOSX-talk mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

Reply via email to