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> Reminds me of good old Kerio Personal Firewall on Windows back in the 90s. That was my first thought as well. Back then Kerio Personal Firewall was a godsend
by squarefoot 6y ago
> Reminds me of good old Kerio Personal Firewall on Windows back in the 90s.
That was my first thought as well. Back then Kerio Personal Firewall was a godsend, and seeing live how much software (which on windows was 99.9% closed) was attempting to phone home behind the user, became an eye opener to many of us.
- dhaavi 6y agoIf you'd like to try a modern version of that - we are looking for testers: https://safing.io/portmaster/ https://safing.io/portmaster/
- squarefoot 6y agoDoing that on my Debian rolling machine just now. (Linux 5.7.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.7.6-1 (2020-06-24) It installed flawlessly after satisfying the libnetfilter-queue1 dependency, currently I'm playing with it, I like the granularity that allows blocking/allowing different domains accesses from within a process, such as for example a tab in Firefox. I'm curious to test it in the next days with Windows closed software run under WINE to see what they do under the hood. So far it seems really well made, I believe it would deserve a full HN article.