Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall

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  • spn

    Discontinued Safing Privacy Network

    I'd really like to see more technical discussion of Safing's SPN idea and implementation (https://safing.io/spn/). If I've understood it correctly, it seems to be in-line with the general trajectory of where Cloudflare is going with DNS privacy and Apple is going with its relay service.

    It seems obvious that VPN services should be split into Relay and Exit services so that you don't have to necessarily trust a single company not to collect and sell all your internet traffic.

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  • simplewall

    Discontinued Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) which can configure network activity on your computer.

    If you are looking for a simple and light firewall (but still better than Windows Firewall), I recommend using Simplewall. It does not require a kernel extension and works with the API provided by Windows to do network filtering.

    https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall

  • portmaster

    🏔 Love Freedom - ❌ Block Mass Surveillance

    Portmaster still (and probably always will) require a local DNS server. Why? Because there is not always and will be less ways in the future to find out which Domain an IP address belongs to.

    GlassWire will probably become quite blind as soon as TLS1.3 is rolled out and working as intended.

    I will look into Mullvad compatibility again in the coming weeks. I think they also improved some stuff on their side.

    User from 2 weeks ago: "Can confirm that Portmaster V.1.0.0 with Mullvard V2022.4 DNS set to 127.0.0.1 and the same setting on the netwerk controller both can life together." from https://github.com/safing/portmaster/issues/313

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