Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3100 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > I tend to disagree.  I can write the OP a nice little tool that will
> > > do what ZoneAlarm does, monitor outgoing traffic and ask the user when
> > > an app wants to connect the outside, but that will only give him a
> > > false sense of security, because he is applying Windows tactics to
> > > Linux, so he is looking for the problems in the wrong place.
> > A firewall tool that will pop-up when disallowed traffic is detected and
> > ask if you want to permit it would be EXTREMELY handy,  for lots of
> > reasons other than spyware/whatnot.  It would make running a workstation
> > with good firewall settings much more convenient - java applets, various
> > apps, etc... may want to make perfectly legitimate network connections
> > that a user or the administrator did not forsee.
> I could very well see newbies like me enjoying such a tool. This could
> also come in handy for any future apps like Acrobat, which may want to
> phone home for some unknown reason.

Exactly;  so the question is can you get iptables events on the d-bus?