Linux version of Little Snitch
Hello, There is a program on the Apple side of things called 'Little Snitch'. At the point a program tries to connect to the Internet, Little Snitch stops the program at that point tells you what program is trying to connect to the Internet and where it's trying to connect to. Then it allows me to decide if the connection should be made or not. Is there anything on the Linux side I could use to do this? Thanks, Jerome
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There is a program on the Apple side of things called 'Little Snitch'. At the point a program tries to connect to the Internet, Little Snitch stops the program at that point tells you what program is trying to connect to the Internet and where it's trying to connect to. Then it allows me to decide if the connection should be made or not. Is there anything on the Linux side I could use to do this?
That's a "Personal Firewall". The common approach on linux is totally different, though. I think this is mostly due to the fact that there isn't an easy way for mailicous parties to let their spyware sneak into Open Source apps. In general, you can mostly trust that the common Open Source software doesn't send anything out to the world that undermines your privacy. Due to this fact, firewalling on linux concentrates around intrusion prevention. "iptables" does a great job at that. It can even filter outgoing traffic. But as-is, it lacks support for interactive, application based user support. If I remember correctly, there were approaches to add that functionality through a GUI app. But I don't really see good use cases for those, except for fighting one's own paranoia. Simple traffic monitoring is a whole different story. There are numerous programs that do this the one or the other way. -hwh
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