I also would like some means of controlling outbound behavior/detection. I like to know what applications are making outbound connections to the internet. And I would like the ability to control which applications can and cannot connect to the internet. Now preventing an application from connecting to the internet is probably best handled by settings within the application itself. But it is the firewall that alerts me to the application's internet behavior and to the fact that I may need to change an application's setting to prevent it from connecting to the internet.
So Ubuntu needs a better system for handling this. The Windows way is to popup a prompt for every application's access attemp (lots of people don't like this). So maybe this approach is not best. But something needs to be done so that users can know and control what outgoing connections are being made. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Gufw Developers, which is subscribed to Gufw. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689818 Title: Feature Request: Allow / Deny incoming connections, outbound detection dialog Status in Gufw: Triaged Bug description: To allow a program to bypass the firewall filtering, one must grant access by pressing Allow and create a firewall rule. Secure network and eliminate risks by hiding the IP address by default. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fireflier.png To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gui-ufw/+bug/689818/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gufw-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gufw-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
