"Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bastien Nocera" <bnocera at redhat.com>
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 8, 2014 1:22:04 PM
> Subject: Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > 
> > Am 08.12.2014 um 11:45 schrieb Bastien Nocera:
> > >> Well, I'll understand these aspects.
> > >>
> > >> But when I think about Linux, especially about Fedora, I'm thinking
> > >> about the freedom to make decisions. This means to me, to customize
> > >> and take advantage of my computer and in this case my operating system.
> > >
> > > You're free to select another firewall zone
> > 
> > so why do you not make secure defaults and say "You're free to select
> > another (more unsecure) firewall zone"?
> 
> 1) It is secure enough and Eclipse listening to a port by default is a bug
> (and I have the firewall specialists at Red Hat/Fedora to back me up)

I have Eclipse open and it's not listening to a port AFAIKT. I wonder what obscure plugin is installed in Eclipse to make this happen.

Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

> 2) Good defaults
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