blog/data/2023-01-22-opensnitch-debian.txt

   1 Title: Opensnitch, the application level interactive firewall, heading into the Debian archive
   2 Tags: english, debian, opensnitch
   3 Date: 2023-01-22 23:55
   4
   5 <p>While reading a
   6 <a href="https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-now/">blog
   7 post claiming MacOS X recently started scanning local files and
   8 reporting information about them to Apple</a>, even on a machine where
   9 all such callback features had been disabled, I came across a
  10 description of the Little Snitch application for MacOS X.  It seemed
  11 like a very nice tool to have in the tool box, and I decided to see if
  12 something similar was available for Linux.</p>
  13
  14 <p>It did not take long to find
  15 <a href="https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch">the OpenSnitch
  16 package</a>, which has been in development since 2017, and now is in
  17 version 1.5.0.  It has had a
  18 <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/909567">request for Debian
  19 packaging</a> since 2018, but no-one completed the job so far.  Just
  20 for fun, I decided to see if I could help, and I was very happy to
  21 discover that
  22 <a href="https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch/issues/304">upstream
  23 want a Debian package too</a>.</p>
  24
  25 <p>After struggling a bit with getting the program to run, figuring
  26 out building Go programs (and a little failed detour to look at eBPF
  27 builds too - help needed), I am very happy to report that I am
  28 sponsoring upstream to maintain the package in Debian, and it has
  29 since this morning been waiting in NEW for the ftpmasters to have a
  30 look.  Perhaps it can get into the archive in time for the Bookworm
  31 release?</p>
  32
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