<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> 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.<br><br>Perhaps Canonical could create such an application as part of their ongoing work with apparmor?<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><br>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Jason Todd <jtodd929@hotmail.com> wrote:<br>> > Both MAC and Windows have applications for protecting users privacy<br>> > regarding outgoing internet connections. Control over outgoing internet<br>> > connections is a huge privacy area that is non-existent in ubuntu. Here's a<br>> > great little program for Apple MACs:<br>> > http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html<br>> ><br>> > IMHO the lack of any sort of privacy protection for Ubuntu's outgoing<br>> > internet connections is a huge problem. Many users will not use Ubuntu<br>> > because they can't control their outgoing connections. I can understand<br>> > linux's lack of support considering it has traditionally been Server<br>> > Oriented. But if Ubuntu wants to succeed on the Desktop, it needs to address<br>> > this issue.<br>> <br>> Because apparmor and selinux never existed, right? That's just what<br>> we need, another tool to do what two tools could do if they just had a<br>> single tool to merge them together. How about we find a way to make<br>> an application that merges apparmor and iptables (as a wrapper not as<br>> a t ool that does them both) rather then trying to reinvent the wheel<br>> and then after reinventing it putting spinners on it so it's ugly.<br>> <br><br></div> </div></body> </html>