Christopher wrote:
I think you're being overly dismissive of legitimate security
concerns.
The whole purpose of a firewall is to lock down the system from
unintentional network traffic. The default installation of the
"Workstation" product does not perform this function. This isn't paranoia.
It's the only function. The "you had one job" meme comes to mind.
Indeed. The best analogy would probably be a condom with a whopping 129024
holes in it. (That's the number of ports that are left open by only the 2
blanket firewalld rules quoted in my thread-starting post.) What kind of
protection do you expect from that?
Kevin Kofler