"Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

Solomon Peachy pizza at shaftnet.org
Tue Dec 9 12:54:54 UTC 2014


On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 12:35:23PM +0100, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> We are concerned with practical security -- keeping the user safe by
> anticipating the user's typical response to situations. But if you think
> the firewall configuration GUI in F20 existed for any purpose other than
> to completely disable the firewall, please take a reality check.

Unfortunately, this mirrors my experience, although many more folks 
cut-n-paste a command line to do the same thing (which they found on a 
random forum) rather than go through the GUI.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy        		       pizza at shaftnet dot org
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