"Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

[Reindl Harald]

Am 08.12.2014 um 17:17 schrieb Bastien Nocera:
>> Am 08.12.2014 um 17:10 schrieb Bastien Nocera:
>>>>> Security is about compromises. The net result of the old firewall
>>>>> settings
>>>>> was people disabling the firewall.
>>>>
>>>> And the net result of the new firewall settings is you disabling the
>>>> firewall for them,
>>>
>>> It's not disabled
>>
>> it is practically
>>
>> the only port unprivileged code can listen on is > 1024, you opened that
>>
>>>> The new firewall settings essentially amount to disabling the firewall.
>>>
>>> It doesn't
>>
>> it does
>>
>> the only port unprivileged code can listen on is > 1024, you opened that
>
> And you're not interested in protecting any of the services running as root?

noah stop that polemic

i know /etc/services and hence i am interested in protecting *any port*

period - end of discussion - we will never agree and thankfully i gave
up maintaining any enduser machine years ago because i had enough of the 
out-of-the-box security problems on windows systems and god bless that i 
never started to recommend anybody use whatever OS

the machines i have to bother about are secured

*but* be sure that discussion is bookmarked if we read soon about damage 
done by careless defaults to users which thought they can trust their 
operating system in a default setup

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