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portmaster
- Portmaster is a privacy suite for your Windows and Linux desktop
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I pwned half of America's fast food chains, simultaneously
There's a very good relatively new open-source GUI firewall app like this called Portmaster:
https://safing.io/
It's available for Windows and Linux
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Port forwarding done by university network admin, they opened every port past 1024???
You can get your own firewall app. Portmaster by safing.io lets you open and close what ever ports you want on your windows system
- A recommendation for adblock
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Zen: Ad-blocker and privacy guard for Windows, MacOS and Linux
amazing work OP! what's the difference between zen and portmaster? :) i would like to compare options to see which one fits my needs the best way
- Portmaster open-source application firewall
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Portmaster Application Firewall v1.4
For Context: Technical Introduction from https://github.com/safing/portmaster#technical-introduction
Portmaster is a privacy suite for your Windows and Linux desktop.
Base Technology
- Portmaster integrates into network stack using nfqueue on Linux and a kernel driver (WFP) on Windows.
- Packets are intercepted at the raw packet level - every packet is seen and can be stopped.
- Ownership of connections is found using eBPF and `/proc` on Linux and a kernel driver and the IP Helper API (`iphlpapi.dll`) on Windows.
- Most settings can be defined per app, which can be matched in different ways.
- Support for special processes with weird or concealed paths/actors:
--- Snap, AppImage and Script support on Linux
--- Windows Store apps and svchost.exe system services support on Windows
- Everything is 100% local on your device. (except the SPN, naturally)
--- Updates are fully signed and downloaded automatically.
--- Intelligence data (block lists, geoip) is downloaded and applied automatically.
- The Portmaster Core Service runs as a system service, the UI elements (App, Notifier) run in user context.
- The main UI still uses electron as a wrapper :/ - but this will change in the future. You can also open the UI in the browser
Feature: Secure DNS
- Portmaster intercepts "astray" DNS queries and reroutes them to itself for seamless integration.
- DNS queries are resolved by the default or configured DoT/DoH resolvers.
- Full support for split horizon and horizon validation to defend against rebinding attacks.
Feature: Privacy Filter
- Define allowed network scopes: Localhost, LAN, Internet, P2P, Inbound.
- Easy rules based on Internet entities: Domain, IP, Country and more.
- Filter Lists block common malware, ad, tracker domains etc.
Feature: Network History ($)
- Record connections and their details in a local database and search all of it later
- Auto-delete old history or delete on demand
Feature: Bandwidth Visibility ($)
- Monitor bandwidth usage per connection and app
Feature: SPN - Safing Privacy Network ($)
- A Privacy Network aimed at use cases "between" VPN and Tor.
- Uses onion encryption over multiple hops just like Tor.
- Routes are chosen to cover most distance within the network to increase privacy.
- Exits are chosen near the destination server. This automatically geo-unblocks in many cases.
- Exclude apps and domains/entities from using SPN.
- Change routing algorithm and focus per app.
- Nodes are hosted by Safing (company behind Portmaster) and the community.
- Speeds are pretty decent (>100MBit/s).
- PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
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Thoughts on safing.io
Portmaster itself is open source (https://github.com/safing/portmaster)
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Count me out on next releases
Then install https://safing.io/ (Portmaster); it's free.
dnscrypt-proxy
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What to do with your DNS when ODoH's Trust-Me-Bruh Model doesn't work for you
There is more than one way to do this but I have decided to use dnscrypt-proxy. We will not be using dnscrypt for the dnscrypt protocol though you could elect to use that as the underlying DNS protocol. dnscrypt-proxy lets's us use a SOCKS5 proxy through which the DNS queries will be sent. We will use a Tor SOCKS5 proxy here. You can choose which protocols should be enabled and which ones should be disabled. There are two points:
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Installing DNSCrypt-Proxy on Silverblue - possible SELinux issue
I tried installing the RPM from the Fedora repos but it's out-of-date and there were no instructions on how to get it operational, so I went with the manual approach as per their wiki: https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Installation-linux
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SmartDNS – local DNS server that forwards to multiple upstream DNS servers
This is awesome, thanks -- going to look into that now. I found SmartDNS interesting and thought I would share it, it's pretty simple to setup. I can see why it's Chinese focused, they have "interesting" internet access over there :-).
I have been looking into DNS quite a bit lately (Unbound, etc), as DNS lookup performance has been pretty subpar lately. I'm in Perth, Australia, and we're pretty remote so our latency is meh at best, and Cloudflare performance has been all over the shop lately, I think they're having issues in WA). DNS can also cause really routing issues here sometimes as we get better latency to Singapore than Sydney, so we might get shunted off to SG.
I've also been using dnscrypt-proxy2 (https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy) for a while, but the above issues with Cloudflares DNS is what triggered me to look into other options.
I use a min-cache-ttl of 15 minutes, which seems to work well.
Thank you for sharing this tip about, looking into this now :).
- I need help with DNScrypt proxy v2 and dnsmasq to prevent dns leaks
- trying to use Anonymized DNS with DNScrypty proxy v2 on openwrt router
- help with DNScrypt proxy v2 and dnsmasq to prevent dns leaks
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Is using tailscale on a public unsecured wifi as safe as using a VPN?
Sure. I run dnscrypt_proxy behind a pihole. https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy
- TotalPlay intercepta las peticiones de DNS y las suplanta.
- Dnscrypt-proxy package need to update
What are some alternatives?
simplewall - Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) which can configure network activity on your computer.
GoodbyeDPI - GoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows)
opensnitch - OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.
cloudflared - Cloudflare Tunnel client (formerly Argo Tunnel)
audacity - Audio Editor
nextdns - NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)
spn - Safing Privacy Network
DNS-over-HTTPS - An implementation of RFC 8484 - DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH).
LuLu - LuLu is the free macOS firewall
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