What is Safing Portmaster, and should I use it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Landrin201@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hello! I stumbled on a post a while back about privacy tools. I can't seem to find it again. I had bookmarked a few sites it linked to and finally got around to looking at them

One of those websites was Safing. I hadn't heard of it before. The website says that it's a firewall tool, but I can't seem to figure out why it's better than the Windows default firewall. Does anyone here use it? What does it provide that Windows doesn't have built in? Is there an avantage to using it if I have a PiHole on my network/use a VPN? Is it meant to be a single-machine firewall or a whole-network firewall?

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Safing is two different things:

Portmaster a nice graphical firewall to control each program, rules based access and network permissions.

SPN: a onion network like Tor, but pay for use.

Portmaster and SPN integrate together nicely and let you say things like:

Skype should route to Italy.

Chrome should route to Texas

Edge should have no internet access

Steam games should have direct raw internet.

So it's a very interesting and novel approach. Faster than tor, because the onion nodes are high performance. They accept monero as payment so semianonymous, harder to identify then a traditional VPN because each program can have a different exit.

It's all open source, it's interesting, worth playing with.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

SPN doesn't sound secure if all the hops are routed by the same company

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