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Is this like OpenSnitch + PiHole combined?
Pretty much, yes.
Pretty interesting. Would love to see if users can choose their own servers as the underlying identity pool. PS: SPN: Safing Privacy Network, https://github.com/safing/spn
For privacy, you never want to be the only person using a server.
The website seems to be very light on any technical details, doesn't give me a slightest idea how it operates. Looking at the comments here I suspect it's a endpoint firewall using a VPN (SPN) to tunnel all the traffic through a virtualized network interface and apply rules and analytics to it.
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 i…
Is this installed specifically on the endpoints or can it be installed on a network gateway (my edge router/gateway is a GNU/Linux machine) to provide analytics and security for the whole LAN? The website seems to be very light on any technical details, doesn't give me a slightest idea how it operates. Looking at the comments here I suspect it's a endpoint firewall using a VPN (SPN) to tunnel all the traffic through…
It integrates with nfqueue on Linux and a kernel extension on Windows. It does not use a virtual interface.
The SPN (Safing Privacy Network; VPN alternative) is optional.
More details on the docs: https://docs.safing.io/
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…
1. Does Safing own and operate all the exit nodes or can folks add their own nodes to it?
2. Are you self-hosting the exit nodes? If not, I'm curious what cloud providers you use.
3. Have you found egressing through a bunch of different geolocated IPs for the same request triggers DDoS/anti-scraping systems (like Cloudflare) more than usual?
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 fo…
(1) Are you planning on having support for more than 5 devices at a future point?
5 devices is what we estimate 1 user has (avg max). If there is demand, we will definitely add a plan to support more devices (or users).
(2) Will you have any features to support parents protection of their children?
We already collect NSFW filter lists to be activated in the settings. Otherwise such features are tricky, as we need to start protecting against the person in front of the device, which is very hard. If you have suggestions, please share!
(3) How easy is it to integrate Safing into a home security stack, or an enterprise security stack?
Can you elaborate on what exactly you have in mind? We don't offer any integrations with other system out of the box yet. We have APIs though that you can use.
(4) Have you considered a one-time unlimited buy-in level in lieu of monthly?
We had a couple lifetime plans on our Kickstarter (years ago). Right now, we don't have any plans for this. You can pay in advance though - up to 4 years.
(5) Is this coming for iOS & MacOS?
Yes. Or, at least we will attempt. Going to be "fun" if Apple continues their locking down strategy. Maybe the EU will force them to open up until then. Expect at least 1-2 years for this to land though.
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…
Congrats on releasing 1.0! It looks very cool. A few questions about Portmaster Unlimited and SPN: 1. Does Safing own and operate all the exit nodes or can folks add their own nodes to it? 2. Are you self-hosting the exit nodes? If not, I'm curious what cloud providers you use. 3. Have you found egressing through a bunch of different geolocated IPs for the same request triggers DDoS/anti-scraping systems (like Cloudf…
1. Does Safing own and operate all the exit nodes or can folks add their own nodes to it?
Everyone can join. We also plan to compensate in some way in the future. Docs: https://docs.safing.io/spn/hosting-a-community-node
2. Are you self-hosting the exit nodes? If not, I'm curious what cloud providers you use.
We rent servers. If you have the SPN, you can click on every server on the map and check where it is hosted. Currently mainly Hetzner, OVH, Katamera, HostHatch. We regularly try new providers, rent a couple servers and see how it goes.
3. Have you found egressing through a bunch of different geolocated IPs for the same request triggers DDoS/anti-scraping systems (like Cloudflare) more than usual?
The client "pins" destination domains/IPs to an exit for an hour (scoped per app) in order to get more stability here. We had issues in the past.
I 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)
Linux install options: https://docs.safing.io/portmaster/install/linux
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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.