LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections • Hacker News Board

Re: LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections

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Post by stryk » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 7:20 PM UTC

I'm not personally a mac user, but I'm still very glad to see projects like this being developed as open source. Very cool I hope this goes on to be a really solid piece of software.

Does anybody have any recommendations for good ways to get fine-tuned control of Windows' default firewall?

Re: LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections

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Post by tuckermi » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 7:20 PM UTC

joombaga wrote: post #10

Ninn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple and Honda can, I would be suprised if not Lulu too can...

Maybe I'm thick but... what name do Apple and Honda share?

Perhaps the commenter meant Google rather than Apple (for "Fit")?

Re: LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 7:21 PM UTC

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Re: LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections

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Post by mtmail » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 7:22 PM UTC

jtokoph wrote: post #5

blocked_again wrote: post #3

LuLu is a billion dollar hypermarket chain. I think it would be a good idea to rename this project in the beginning if you don't want to get into any copyright issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu_Hypermarket

Can't a retail chain and a firewall can share the same name without issues?

German hypermarket 'Metro' sued Microsoft over naming because they registered their name for just about any business sector , including computers and data processing. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/micro... They sued others, including public transport companies, and a disco place before. I believe LuLu is fine though, it's Metro AG who are far overreacting.

Re: LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections

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Post by andresgottlieb » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 7:24 PM UTC

joombaga wrote: post #10

Ninn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple and Honda can, I would be suprised if not Lulu too can...

Maybe I'm thick but... what name do Apple and Honda share?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

Re: LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections

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Post by kozhevnikov » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 7:24 PM UTC

joombaga wrote: post #10

Ninn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple and Honda can, I would be suprised if not Lulu too can...

Maybe I'm thick but... what name do Apple and Honda share?

The Beatles' Apple. Not sure about Honda, may they're confusing Honda with Nissan and case nissan.com not being own by Nissan the car company?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_vs._Nissan_Compu...

Re: LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections

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Post by mahmud » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 7:24 PM UTC

blocked_again wrote: post #3

LuLu is a billion dollar hypermarket chain. I think it would be a good idea to rename this project in the beginning if you don't want to get into any copyright issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu_Hypermarket

Lulu is also an online publishing platform. In fact, only "Lulu" that I know.

https://www.lulu.com/

Re: LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections

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Post by erAck » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 7:26 PM UTC

Nowadays it's more important to control and restrict outgoing connections than incoming connections. Who would had thought of that 25 years ago.

Re: LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections

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Post by guan » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 7:26 PM UTC

a_t48 wrote: post #4

blocked_again wrote: post #3

LuLu is a billion dollar hypermarket chain. I think it would be a good idea to rename this project in the beginning if you don't want to get into any copyright issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu_Hypermarket

Doesn't that only apply if they are competing businesses?

Many countries have a “well-known trademark” doctrine where a mark can be so famous that any business using it could be a source of consumer confusion. For example, if you see that Coca-Cola has released a firewall, you might well think it has some connection to Coca-Cola, even if you know they are not currently in the software business. Lulu supermarket may not be well known enough to enjoy that kind of protection.

Re: LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections

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Post by stryk » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 7:26 PM UTC

ComputerGuru wrote: post #2

For those on Windows, http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/index.html does the same using the native firewall (so no 3rd party dependencies, services, or bloat) (though they've ~recently added paid licenses with more features to their basic offering). I only wish it were cleaner and simpler. I don't think the Windows Firewall API is too bad, I should add this to my bucket list of open source software to write that I'll m…

Thanks for the link. I'm curious how it compares to https://www.binisoft.org/wfc.php although this looks to be free I don't think it's open source. Not having much luck finding license info for it.