An application that merges apparmor and iptables (as a wrapper) would be fantastic! add a GUI to it that helps newbies use it and problem solved.
Perhaps Canonical could create such an application as part of their ongoing work with apparmor? > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Jason Todd <jtodd...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Both MAC and Windows have applications for protecting users privacy > > regarding outgoing internet connections. Control over outgoing internet > > connections is a huge privacy area that is non-existent in ubuntu. Here's a > > great little program for Apple MACs: > > http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html > > > > IMHO the lack of any sort of privacy protection for Ubuntu's outgoing > > internet connections is a huge problem. Many users will not use Ubuntu > > because they can't control their outgoing connections. I can understand > > linux's lack of support considering it has traditionally been Server > > Oriented. But if Ubuntu wants to succeed on the Desktop, it needs to address > > this issue. > > Because apparmor and selinux never existed, right? That's just what > we need, another tool to do what two tools could do if they just had a > single tool to merge them together. How about we find a way to make > an application that merges apparmor and iptables (as a wrapper not as > a t ool that does them both) rather then trying to reinvent the wheel > and then after reinventing it putting spinners on it so it's ugly. >
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