[tor-talk] Open source firewall.

[krishna e bera]

On 14-01-19 09:47 PM, TheMindwareGroup wrote:
> Windows firewall is useless.
> 
> Someone should write an open source firewall

They did:
1) OpenWRT runs in the router and is not vulnerable to any of the issues
that your desktop/laptop computer has.
2) Linux/*BSD/Tails/Whonix runs on your desktop/laptop and comes with a
decent firewall and is not vulnerable to most of the issues that Windows
has.

> Such a piece of software would be a great security enhancement to Tor.
> Even just a small program to block all outgoing traffic to stop
> programs from accessing the internet directly (which would also stop
> virus's and Trojans).

If you really must run Windows software see also
3) VMWare (run Windows in a restricted VM)
4) Wine (run Windows or its programs with restrictions in Linux)
5) Parallels (run Windows and its software on Macs)

Btw enhancement suggestions to Tor can be filed on
https://trac.torproject.org

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