garywill/LAN-port-scan-forbidder
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Forbid untrusted webs to access localhost or LAN. An anti-scan protection 🛡️🏡
5 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2021-11-16 · latest 2024-08-25
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…random user-agents, canvas blocker, exfil data, Ublock origin. The 0.0.0.0 day 'Port Scanner' -> https://github.com/garywill/LAN-port-scan-forbidder Yeah, they can use JS to ping stuff on our LANs to fingerprint too. It's an internet…
comment by mrinfinitiesx · 2024-08-25 · in Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (2021) -
…anything. It's not that scary at the moment. Browsers can do it now. It's an age old 'feature' -> https://github.com/garywill/LAN-port-scan-forbidder uBlock apparently blocks your browser from reaching out to your LAN though, but; no…
comment by mrinfinitiesx · 2024-08-23 · in Microsoft's Windows Recall feature is coming back in October -
Besides NoScript, another webextension addon is doing that: LAN port scan forbidder: https://github.com/garywill/LAN-port-scan-forbidder Addon already on Firefox
comment by gry_gh · 2021-11-16 · in Chrome may start restricting requests to private networks