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Little Snitch is coming to Linux

https://obdev.at/blog/little-snitch-for-linux/

Little Snitch for Linux — Because Nothing Else Came Close

Recent political events have pushed governments and organizations to seriously question their dependence on foreign-controlled software. The core issue is simple and uncomfortable: through automatic updates, a vendor can run any code, with any…

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Apr 9 at 8:57pmWeb
Show threadethagnawl3d ago
@campuscodi I've been experimenting with it all day. So far, it does what it says on the tin!
Show threadCiarán (mc)3d ago
@campuscodi it's class
Show threadپویان Pouyan 3d ago
@campuscodi I used to use open snitch, but it was a one man developer software and eventually I got so frustrated with it that I removed it altogether.
Show threadSpaceLifeForm2d ago

@campuscodi

Appears to be a useful tool. Reminds me of Tiny Personal Firewall.

Two concerns. The use of eBPF (has been attacked), and a proprietary daemon.

Seems like the daemon should be open source.

Show threadVessOnSecurity2d ago

@campuscodi Doesn't work on my machine:

littlesnitch: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.39' not found (required by littlesnitch)

My OS (Linux Mint) *is* up-to-date. The author has made unwarranted assumptions about what is available where.

Show threadSimon2d ago
@bontchev @campuscodi Doesn’t Mint 22 ship with glibc>=2.39? I recently ran into similar glibc issues with some go programs and it’s frustrating