Linux

Sometimes, there is a need to use SOCKS Proxy for connection even if an application itself isn’t providing such feature. If you’re working on Windows you can use FreeCap which allows you to put your applications into FreeCap “sandbox”. Every time you run app from this “sandbox” it is sent through the SOCKS proxy you set as an configuration option. Update: Recently I’ve heard that it is somewhat impossible to execute this application on Windows 7....

I like to keep my system clean and secured. Unfortunately, the GUI interface for iptables isn’t really matching my expectations. So I would like to create simple bash script which will execute iptables rules with every system boot-up. By default it blocks all incoming AND outgoing traffic also, so be careful :-) If you want to open another port – you just need to add it to the INPUT_OUTPUT list. Take a look at the source of the script:...