On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 17:57 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 10:54 +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > > > There are no stupid questions :) > > > > On most desktop systems firewall is not needed. Many users do not even > > know how to configure it. In fact I disable it in most of my systems, > > because there is no real use for it. So I asked a simple question > > whether there is a need to install iptables by default? > > On most laptops, however, which are the most common types of system sold > today, a firewall is very definitely needed when you're connecting to > hotel networks, public wifi access points...
We're trying to get beyond that conventional wisdom and look at what services might actually get unintentionally exposed in the absence of a firewall and whether there is some other solution (e.g., don't enable them by default, or bind to localhost). https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-December/146758.html -- Matt -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
