> Hi,
>
> Taking again the thread about the SSH brute force attacks, but with a
> question.
>
> We have a nice tool called system-config-securitylevel, why isn't it
> possible to indicate some ips or ranges there an click to "stealth" so,
> this port is just visible to the indicated ip-adresses??
>
> Roger
>
Because it's a simple gui tool designed to be simple.
you're right at this point, it's adding a function more., but adding this
function would not mean crashing usability
of this tool, i think. It's just an senseful option more, that keeps EASY the users
computers more secure - specially
on servers.
If we were talking about usability, why not discussing an application level
gateway-firewall for fedora like eg.
zonealarm? This is well known by most of all users...
Roger