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by goatinaboat 2224 days ago
I would love to find a way to whitelist which apps can access the network, but I haven't found a way for that yet

Ironically this is very easy on W10 and OSX. But you can do it on Linux with AppArmor.

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Wait how is this easy on macOS? Do you mean with Little Snitch? Or is there something built into the OS?
I don't suppose you have any pointers on how to make that a reality in Ubuntu/Debian? I too would be very interested in being able to configure whitelist only network connections.
The linux desktop security model is severely broken [1]. Just use Qubes if you want to control access to resources without losing your mind.

[1] https://forums.whonix.org/t/fixing-the-desktop-linux-securit...

The concept is called a full system policy https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/wikis/FullSystemPolic...