Re: Application interface

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Have you looked at the owner match ?
Bye
Patrick

gideon olam wrote:

>Is there an interface or mechanism either in place today or planned for
>the future which allows for application level control?  Meaning instead
>of all apps being being allowed to use well known services like http, 
>limiting access to a subset of applications?  
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>I'm interested in Linux's ability to provide some of the personal
>firewall capabilities seen on windows systems.  Specific control of
>applications use of the internet becomes important when you are
>combating various types of malware be it spyware, trojans, or viruses. 
>While it's true that malware has been slow to spread to the Linux
>platform it is coming,  and application controls are an important step
>towards prevention and control.
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>Joe Saland, CISSP
>gideon@gideonolam.com
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