Am 08.12.2014 um 12:22 schrieb Bastien Nocera:
Am 08.12.2014 um 11:45 schrieb Bastien Nocera:
Well, I'll understand these aspects.

But when I think about Linux, especially about Fedora, I'm thinking
about the freedom to make decisions. This means to me, to customize
and take advantage of my computer and in this case my operating system.

You're free to select another firewall zone

so why do you not make secure defaults and say "You're free to select
another (more unsecure) firewall zone"?

1) It is secure enough and Eclipse listening to a port by default is a bug
(and I have the firewall specialists at Red Hat/Fedora to back me up)
2) Good defaults

again: the *purpose* of a Firewall is to protect from application bugs or unintentional user faults - frankly the early KDE4 setups in 2008 had a ton of 0.0.0.0 listenining high ports, that where indeed a bug and hence a firewall to protect the user against such bugs

it is not a bug that "ZendStudio" is listening on a high UDP port for license verification (only one instance in the same network via broadcasts)

it is intentional by the software

but it is not intentional by the user have that open on the WAN or even by default in the LAN, it's intentional by the user to be protected


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