We've decided that it's better for the tools to be available but not try
to provide a default configuration -> then why isn't gufw (gtk gui for
ufw) isn't installed by default for ubuntu desktop? Plasma 5 has a gui
for the firewall inside the system settings. Since Ubuntu has altered
the
Hello Pedro, thanks for the report; this was an explicit decision:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ#UFW
Making firewall rules that are tight enough to stop threats yet open
enough for the computer to still be useful in a wide variety of
environments is very challenging. We've decided that
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UFW or iptables is disabled by default on both ubuntu server and
desktop, which poses a major security risk as ports that shouldn't be
open, are open by default, specially
