A Linux version of Little Snitch, the iconic network monitoring and firewall tool for macOS, has been released. Little Snitch for Linux is written in Rust and uses eBPF for kernel-level traffic interception (which lets sandboxed code run inside the Linux kernel without modifying it). The tool lists processes on your machine making network connections, with options to block them. Its creator, Christian Starkjohann at Austrian software company Objective Development, says he created the Linux port out of personal necessity. He’d installed Linux on some old hardware, and immediately felt exposed without it. While Linux has alternatives, not least in […]