"Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Di, 2014-12-09 at 08:16 -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 12:54:59PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > Why we can't have something like this?  And if you don't want a popup
> > > asking, have something in the NetworkManager applet menu, where people
> > > can easily find the switch without having to search for it?  A "[x]
> > > allow sharing" checkbox?  A firewall zone selector?
> > 
> > We can — we just need someone to design and write it.
> 
> A design for something that we don't want to implement. This was one of the
> options when implementing the feature, one that we didn't pursue. We chose
> instead to use "user intent" as a way to do this.
> 
> If you start sharing something on a network, then we consider it safe to share.
> If you connect to a public unencrypted Wi-Fi, you won't have the option to. If
> you connect to an encrypted Wi-Fi where sharing your holiday photos isn't acceptable
> then it won't, because you didn't ask it to in the first place.

That assumes all applications behave that way.  Which simply isn't true,
there is a world outside gnome.  You apparently choose to ignore that,
which is a bad idea IMO.

cheers,
  Gerd