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by dhaavi 4y ago
Thanks for your interest. (1) Are you planning on having support for more than 5 devices at a future point? 5 devices is what we estimate 1 user has (avg max). If there is demand, we will definitely add a plan to support more devices (or us
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by dhaavi 4y ago
It is installed on the endpoint. It integrates with nfqueue on Linux and a kernel extension on Windows. It does not use a virtual interface. The SPN (Safing Privacy Network; VPN alternative) is optional. More details on the docs: https:&#x
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by dhaavi 4y ago
We have recently added a system to support these use cases. I will see if we can add support for snap packages in the next weeks. Now tracking this internally at CC#2632.
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by dhaavi 4y ago
You can add your own servers to the network as community nodes. [0] For privacy, you never want to be the only person using a server. [0] https://docs.safing.io/spn/hosting-a-community-node
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by dhaavi 4y ago
We have a blog post about this, if anyone is curious: https://safing.io/blog/2022/04/11/portmaster-vs-simplewall/
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by dhaavi 4y ago
This is client software. Everything is done locally. Except of course for the SPN, which has a growing network of servers to relay traffic.
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by dhaavi 4y ago
CTO of Safing here. Came back to answer the question and you beat me to it! Thanks! SPN (Safing Privacy Network) aims to fill the area between VPNs and Tor. VPNs provide very little real privacy and Tor is (outside Tor Browser) very difficu
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by dhaavi 4y ago
Huh. Thanks, I will check that we explain that better.
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by dhaavi 4y ago
CTO and Co-Founder of Safing here. We're super excited to introduce version 1.0 of our network monitor and privacy firewall - Portmaster! On 1.1. this year, Portmaster was shared on HN and we hit front page [1]. With the help of our te
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Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall(safing.io)
311 points by dhaavi 4y ago|113 comments
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by dhaavi 4y ago
CTO and Co-Founder of Safing here. We're super excited to introduce version 1.0 of our network monitor and privacy firewall - Portmaster! On 1.1. this year, Portmaster was shared on HN and we hit the front page [1]. With the help of ou
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Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall(safing.io)
4 points by dhaavi 4y ago|3 comments
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by dhaavi 4y ago
Thanks for the pointer! I just read some interesting proposals in the GH issues and recognized your username. This is some nice piece of work - will definitely return to read more about the underlying concepts. We are working in a similar a
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by dhaavi 4y ago
Tribler is an interesting project, but not directly comparable to what the OP is trying to achieve.
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by dhaavi 4y ago
Cogent is the third biggest network on the Internet by CAIDA AS Rank. Your connection used it for pretty much all the distance.
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Portmaster Firewall v0.9: Graphs and Full-Device Monitor(safing.io)
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by dhaavi 4y ago
Kudos for the "quest NPCs" joke.
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by dhaavi 4y ago
Google translation: https://fm4-orf-at.translate.goog/stories/3024924/?_x_tr_sl=...
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Europol and CIA engage in data mining in the SWIFT system [DE](fm4.orf.at)
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by dhaavi 5y ago
Safing.io | Areas: Go/Golang, Angular, Networking, Sysadmin | Full-Time | ONSITE (or re_mote within) Austria / AT Safing is building software (B2C) that protects privacy online: - An application firewall - An alternative to VPN&#x
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by dhaavi 5y ago
Try https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/techn...
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How Google Maps is tracking the Russian invasion of Ukraine(washingtonpost.com)
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by dhaavi 5y ago
Of course changing the language is easy, but in a defensive scenario, Florian Roth argues that a big organisation would not change the language of their 1000+ assets in order run a malware scanner.
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by dhaavi 5y ago
Related: Discussion started by Florian Roth, creator of the Thor scanner: https://twitter.com/cyb3rops/status/1496815032738459651
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by dhaavi 5y ago
Then check out the Portmaster Application Firewall: https://safing.io/portmaster/ Disclaimer: I’m Co-Founder/CTO of Safing, the company behind the Portmaster. You can ask me questions here - I have notifications e
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by dhaavi 5y ago
I was a bit confused, as this is _not_ about Graphene OS - a privacy and security focused Android distro: https://grapheneos.org/
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by dhaavi 5y ago
With “[feature]” I was referring to Firefox’ ability to set a different VPN server per container.
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by dhaavi 5y ago
> [feature] only available in Firefox Not exactly. You can achieve pretty much the same result for the use cases described in the blog post today with the SPN ( https://safing.io/spn/ ) - using any browser: The SPN au
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by dhaavi 5y ago
That sounds like a very nice idea! This would be a great base for a secure browser, which is something we are interested in long-term. Maybe we can have a chat about a possible future partnership? We won't be able to support such an in
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by dhaavi 5y ago
Haha, yes indeed. That is the easiest part. The tail is unbelievably long though. Nothing I have to tell you. ;) Well, in our case I think the security world does not have many words to start with. When we looked for a name, everything was

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