Re: Tor & application-firewall support

2012-04-24 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Sam Smith wrote: > Isn't Android Linux based? Just because it's loosely based on Linux does not mean it is close to the same Linux, same type of Linux or even close to the same build of Linux. Though with this latest release of the Linux kernel we are step closer

RE: Tor & application-firewall support

2012-04-24 Thread Sam Smith
Isn't Android Linux based? Whisper Monitor is an application firewall that is designed for Android. Can't this be adapted for ubuntu? Twitter purchased Whisper Systems and reports are that they plan to open source the products http://www.andhrabreakingnews.com/twitter-plans-to-open-source-and

Re: Tor & application-firewall support

2012-04-24 Thread Guthro
On 2012-04-24 8:03 AM, John Moser wrote: On 04/24/2012 08:49 AM, Paul Campbell wrote: There's been some discussion on this mailing list about application-firewalls, and I wanted to say a word about Ubuntu's inability to filter internet connections at the application-level. It's doable, just n

Re: hang in failsafe.conf on precise

2012-04-24 Thread Evan Huus
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Christoph Mathys wrote: > I just encountered some problems with very long boottimes on precise. > failsafe.conf just hangs until the timeout has elapsed. > > The culprit seems to be that I define interfaces in > /etc/network/interfaces that do not exist when I'm te

Re: Tor & application-firewall support

2012-04-24 Thread John Moser
On 04/24/2012 08:49 AM, Paul Campbell wrote: There's been some discussion on this mailing list about application-firewalls, and I wanted to say a word about Ubuntu's inability to filter internet connections at the application-level. It's doable, just not pretty. I work as a freelance journal

Tor & application-firewall support

2012-04-24 Thread Paul Campbell
There's been some discussion on this mailing list about application-firewalls, and I wanted to say a word about Ubuntu's inability to filter internet connections at the application-level. I work as a freelance journalist. On many occasions I recommend the use of Tor to sources in middle easter

hang in failsafe.conf on precise

2012-04-24 Thread Christoph Mathys
I just encountered some problems with very long boottimes on precise. failsafe.conf just hangs until the timeout has elapsed. The culprit seems to be that I define interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces that do not exist when I'm testing in kvm (ifup -a fails). This then seems to prevent static-net