low-hanging fruit
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Fri Aug 17 13:37:26 UTC 2007
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 01:44:23PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 07:47 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:30:17 +0100
> > Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Maybe Lennart can fix it too? :)
> > >
> > > Here's an old entry in my bookmarks:
> > > http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/fieryfilter/
> > > http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/fieryfilter/fieryfilter.png
> > >
> > > This probably needs UI love, and use of D-Bus instead of Unix sockets
> > > for the admin rights, but the idea is there.
> >
> > Actually I find these questions to be a net lose. Just like the ssl
> > cert questions in browsers. They're scray questions in languages the
> > user either doesn't understand or just plain doesn't care about. (and
> > no, I don't have a better suggestion to solve the problem)
>
> I was mostly talking about the infrastructure that this provides. and I
> mentioned the UI needs love. It would allow us to do something like
> that:
> http://www.wap.org/journal/security3/firewall.jpg
This looks fairly sensible. From the look of the png above though,
it pops up a dialog for every packet that doesn't match the rules?
That sounds like a *really* bad idea.
Dave
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