"Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Dec 9 06:21:57 UTC 2014


I wrote:
> Indeed. The best analogy would probably be a condom with a whopping 129024
> holes in it. (That's the number of ports that are left open by only the 2
> blanket firewalld rules quoted in my thread-starting post.) What kind of
> protection do you expect from that?

Correction: The 2 offending rules actually open up "only" 129022 ports. That 
doesn't change anything of the argument, but I'm correcting myself before 
somebody starts nitpicking about that. ;-)

        Kevin Kofler



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