On Monday 04 April 2005 18:32, Paul Smith wrote: > > I do belive this is being discussed in some context in the expert list as > > well? Might be worth joining to follow the thread. > > Since nobody answered suggesting a firewall with that feature, it may > be very complicated to achieve that, in case of being possible.
I certainly think that it is possible, just not useful. There have been myriad conversations on this and other lists pointing out that personal firewall apps on Windows are simply panaceas that give windows users the illusion of security while actually not providing much of anything useful. So, when someone suggests that a Linux app be coded to provide the same false sense of security to users, when there are myriad choices of real firewalls as well as methods to lock the system down that are not trivially bypassed, some of us simply don't take the suggestion seriously. Certainly, it would be possible to set up a gui that provides interactive user level functions in iptables, but you would have to run as administrator, which is something that is far worse that what you would seek to protect yourself from in doing so. -- Bryan Phinney
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