Anton Aylward wrote:
Dave Howorth said the following on 04/30/2013 11:44 AM:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The default was the other way round some releases ago. Many people complained about this change at the time, but the decission was made and kept :-(
(they said something about home users not needing this. How about remote maintenance of home users, for instance? Sigh.)
I think the point is that you should not have open network services by default. You should have to explicitly open a weakness in your defences.
I keep saying Context is Everything but that usually the gap. When people pose the problems we have we ask them what system they are running, what revisions etc. We really should have asked Lynn about the context here;
+1 It's always going to be a problem on a list like this where the common denominator is only "I use openSUSE". Sometimes a home-user is easily recognised, sometimes not. Sometimes the admin-user is easily recognised, sometimes not.
Now when it comes down to single home machines plugged directly into the Big Bad Wild Internet, yes I agree, they need the firewall ON!
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