firewall with user interaction/netlink support

Onno Timmerman onno at filosofie.be
Mon Dec 6 12:58:29 CET 2004


Dik Takken wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Jeroen Wijnhout wrote:
>
>>> I don't think there will be any interest, because there's no reason to
>>> deny any application access to the internet. I don't know of any Linux
>>
>>
>> Ahum, spyware is not impossible on linux at all. Spyware can find its 
>> way into
>> your system using social engineering techniques, rather than security 
>> holes.
>> Such an app would be a user friendly tool to discover those.
>
>
> Of course you can create Linux spyware, but I guess the amount of 
> Linux/KDE users suffering from spyware (or paranoia) is quite low.

Not only that, because the source is open people can check it for spy-ware

>
> Dik
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