Little Snitch alternative: Hands Off!
 

I've been using LS for a long time now and have recently complemented it with an interesting alternative:

Hands Off!

It does what LS does, plus it allows you to control all writing file-access for every app seperately. The downside is that you get to decide the right course of action in a lot more dialogues, as it comes with less pre-configured rules.

But that also lets you get a feeling to what extent apps phone home and write invisible files in obscure places.

Probably not something for I-just-want-it-to-work-kind of users, but very handy if you need to take a closer look.

OK I just cruised through this thread....

Acme what is the goal your trying to solve with something like little snitch?
It is not clear to me you have a use case for it?