Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall
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#2CTO and Co-Founder of Safing here. We're super excited to introduce version 1.0 of our network monitor and privacy firewall - Portmaster!
On 1.1. this year, Portmaster was shared on HN and we hit front page [1]. With the help of our testers - many of you! - we were able to mature and develop Portmaster to hit this milestone.
We're on a mission to bring privacy back to the masses. Privacy has to be easy & accessible for everyone, while hackers and tinkerers should have the tools to customize everything to their needs. So while Portmaster 1.0 is a big milestone, this is just the start!
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29761978 [2]: https://star-history.com/#safing/portmaster&Date
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#3Are there any plans for a Mac version?
Pretty cool that both Windows and Linux both are supported and already exist. Keep up the good work!
I also appreciate the easy to read and clear privacy policy about what telemetry and data this SaSS platform collects and how it is handled.
https://safing.io/privacy/#article-1-where-we-collect-datapi...
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#4need a Mac version
Re: Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall
#5Been looking for something like this for my windows computer. Little Snitch has been invaluable over the years but never found anything that covers it’s features for windows
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#6I've been using for about 6 months and I think its a good product. I suddenly needed a new firewall as Comodo Firewall doesn't work well with VPN I have to use (it cannot block anything). This stepped up like a champ in preventing unwanted networking behavior from Microsoft and others. The Notify Task has some times been weird but 1.0 seems to work well for me. The fact that i can point at my local DNScrypt instance is nice. I need to explore SPN more and see if it would work better than VPN for me or not.
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#7I installed this about six months ago on Ubuntu 18 and it hanged when I launched. Has this been ironed out? I might try again. If I'm having issues, I'll submit an issue on Github. Was it tested on Ubuntu 18? BTW: I have to use Ubuntu 18 since version 20 is not compatible with my machine (some BS about NVIDIA drivers crashing the OS)
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#8I'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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#9Are there any plans for a Mac version? Pretty cool that both Windows and Linux both are supported and already exist. Keep up the good work! I also appreciate the easy to read and clear privacy policy about what telemetry and data this SaSS platform collects and how it is handled. https://safing.io/privacy/#article-1-where-we-collect-datapi...
For macOS I can strongly recommend Little Snitch. It's not open source, but I like that it's not subscription software and doesn't collect personal data. https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
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#10Is this a per device client? Is it possible to say, run it on Ubuntu as a server and have it handle the whole LAN?