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Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall

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Re: Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall

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Post by stusmall »

I evaluated this a few months ago and absolutely loved it. It was more polished and easier to use than I expected. Since the website made a big deal about it being alpha I went in expecting a little pain.

The only major problem I hit was that everytime a snap would update it would appear as a new application and I had to reapply the rules. At the time there was a proposal for a change to fix this but it hadn't been implemented yet. I think once that lands, if it hasn't already, I'll be a loyal daily user.

EDIT: Adding GitHub issue link https://github.com/safing/portmaster/issues/398

Re: Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall

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Post by cynod »

Tarq0n wrote: post #14

I've been using this for about a month and it's been excellent. Actually dropped nextDNS for it, as my main need for nextDNS was one windows desktop.

Was just reading their site and wondering about that myself. But I use NextDNS on my router to cover all the devices on the house and this seems individual client based.

Still, I can run it on my main machine.

The networking looks a great blend of onion routing and secured connections. Really clever way of constantly changing a client IP. As someone else noted it's like a client/outgoing version of Cloudfare's DDoS mitigated network design.

Re: Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall

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Post by OrvalWintermute »

dhaavi wrote: post #2

CTO 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 f…

Looks intriguing. A few questions:

(1) Are you planning on having support for more than 5 devices at a future point?

(2) Will you have any features to support parents protection of their children?

(3) How easy is it to integrate Safing into a home security stack, or an enterprise security stack?

(4) Have you considered a one-time unlimited buy-in level in lieu of monthly?

(5) Is this coming for iOS & MacOS?

Thanks for pushing the privacy front.

Re: Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall

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Post by CharlesW »

cvwright wrote: post #17
CharlesW wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Why is “not subscription software” necessarily a good thing? Don’t you want to be the customer rather than the product?

> Why is “not subscription software” necessarily a good thing?

I personally consider that a "pro". You may not have experienced subscription fatigue yet, which is great.

> Don’t you want to be the customer rather than the product?

You may have misunderstood — Little Snitch is a paid product that collects no data.

Re: Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall

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Post by janka102 »

xcambar wrote: post #24
mcc1ane wrote: post #20

What's SPN?

This. I have followed multiple links, never able to find the expansion of the acronym. So weird.

I also couldn't find it on their website, but their GitHub says it means Safing Privacy Network. https://github.com/safing/spn/
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