Solomon Peachy wrote:
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 08:07:00PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> This kind of sharing "features" is a security risk to begin with. Users
> starting them are part of the problem. A desktop is not a file server.
A desktop isn't a file server, until it is.
Please, take a deep breath, and consider that there are many, many, many
more use cases out there in the real world.
There is one way to get files off my computer, it is SFTP, which uses the
SSH authentication mechanism and encryption. (As an extra precaution, SSH
and SFTP are also NOT open to the WAN/Internet, my cable modem doubles as a
hardware firewall and I don't forward port 22 there.) I don't want or need
any other mechanism, especially not an unauthenticated and/or unencrypted
one.
Kevin Kofler