Am 08.12.2014 um 13:39 schrieb Bastien Nocera:
Well, it's in your hands now, and every application developer's hands,
if RH is going to be turning the default firewall off.

Not Red Hat, Fedora. And it's not off by default either. It's disabled
for user applications, not root ones

and that is a problem

"user applications" can be any bad code executed by the user start listening on the WAN - guess what is more likely

* get a rootkit opening privileged ports
* execute code by a careless user

mircosoft has learned their lessons after WinXP SP2 and Fedora goes the opposite direction which is very sad

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