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		aorth on Aug 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: RadioSilence. Easy to Use OS X Firewall Cheaper than Little Snitch[0], which has been the firewall of choice for privacy-conscious Mac OS X users for over a decade. I wonder how it compares. It's a shame that neither is open source. Also, I always wondered why there was nothing like this on Linux—I write firewall rules on my servers, but I just want to use my Linux desktop. sigh [0] https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

xiconfjs on Aug 17, 2016 [–]

at least for ufw [1] on Ubuntu there is a GUI called gufw [2], and it's not as bad.

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW [2] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Gufw

aorth on Aug 17, 2016 | [–]

Does it have the ability to pop up on outgoing request? That's Little Snitch's killer feature.

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