On Saturday, February 22, 2020 10:32:19 PM MST Ed Greshko wrote:
On 2020-02-23 11:44, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
The harm in this demonstrated in this thread was opening EVERY PROCESS THAT BINDS A PORT AS THE USER to THE ENTIRE INTERNET, on both IPv4 and IPv6.
Except that in this thread there were no processes bound to any higher port and in LISTEN.
Which demonstrates that fixing that horrible policy would not harm users.