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Hi!
I was installing a winxp into a mid2007 Macmini, and while checking for firewall applications for it, found info about Peerblock. Digging into it, i found there's a linux application also - peerguardian, but all info seemed to be quite old. My question is: is 'peerguardian' still relevant in 2021? I'm not torrenting, is it still good idea to use it for privacy reasons?
I see it blocks quite a lot of traffic while running, bogons and others, even blocks duckduckgo and linuxquestions. Is the software still relevant today, or did i stumbled into ancient deprecated security practices?
Thanks in-advance to anybody clarifying this a little.
Edit: i also have 'hostsblock' from SBo installed. I would like to minimize unauthorized net traffic from my computer while browsing.
Thank's for the link. Tested ok.
I have /etc/hosts blockings, and rc.firewall running on this box.
So you are saying Peerguardian isn't obsolete software or anything? I'm asking, because all articles and forum postings about it, i've found, were from years back.
There are many things that have changed since then, including things like the way we connect to the internet. The proliferation of mobile devices and Wifi mean that basically every house has a router now, which usually means access to a hardware firewall. For a home connection, ISPs have been locking them down so that, for example, you can't run a web server at home.
But to answer your question about peerguardian, I think most people would use VPNs to achieve the same result these days, thereby making it redundant.
If you don't want to sign up to a VPN, you can use a hosts block list to achieve a similar result. There are many around and they're regularly updated.
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