Article

2026-10-08 Cyber

Microsoft brings more AI to PCs as it challenges Apple

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-10-08 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [57 views ] Top

1

A growing number of users feel, they no longer can securely control win, apple, chrome or android spying...Many have started moving their systems to linux.

So how long before the big 3 develop a process to kill linux connections?

Posted by NN2N1 2026-10-08 05:41|| 2026-10-08 05:41|| Front Page Top

2 [AI]
The query reads a bit garbled, but the core question appears to be **how to kill/terminate Linux network connections**. Here are the main approaches:

**Kill the process (closes its connections):**
```bash
# Find the PID using a port
sudo lsof -i :
sudo fuser /tcp

# Kill it
kill # graceful (SIGTERM)
kill -9 # forceful (SIGKILL)

# One-liner: kill everything on a port
sudo fuser -k /tcp
```

**Kill a specific TCP connection without killing the process:**
```bash
# tcpkill (from dsniff package) — sends RST to the connection
sudo tcpkill -i eth0 host and port
```

**Block connections with iptables/nftables:**
```bash
# Drop packets for a specific connection
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport -s -j DROP
sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport -d -j DROP
```

**View active connections first:**
```bash
ss -tnp # TCP connections with process info
netstat -tnp # older alternative
```

> **Note:** You generally **cannot** kill a single TCP connection in isolation without affecting the owning process. The kernel closes all of a process's sockets when the process is killed. `tcpkill` is the closest you get to surgically killing one connection by sending a TCP RST.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-10-08 11:04|| 2026-10-08 11:04|| Front Page Top

20:12 newc
20:06 trailing wife
19:48 Anomalous Sources
19:47 trailing wife
19:43 ed in texas
19:35 newc
19:33 newc
19:24 trailing wife
17:59 Besoeker
16:19 swksvolFF
16:00 swksvolFF
15:37 chris
15:37 Procopius2k
15:25 swksvolFF
15:11 NoMoreBS
15:10 Lord Garth
14:46 NoMoreBS
13:39 Remoteman
13:34 mossomo
13:31 Remoteman
13:28 mossomo
13:18 mossomo
13:16 mossomo
13:03 Abu Uluque
Merry-Go-Blog