mobility and firewall

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 12:41:24AM -0500, Lance Lassetter wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 17:20 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Here's a link to some previous work on a specification for a firewall
> > for Ubuntu:
> > 
> > http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/Firewalls
> > 
> > Feel free to send your ideas to the folks who worked on it.
> 
> I think if ubuntu wants to achieve better laptop support some sort of
> basic security system should be in place besides 'no open ports'.  As
> laptops are so mobile and connecting to so many unknown networks.  Why not
> take advantage of Netfilter's excellent stateful packet inspection?
> Shouldn't this be of higher priority?

When you consider the quantity of feature ideas available which would
improve Ubuntu, and the relatively small amount of development resources we
have at our disposal, it's clear that we can't do everything we would like.
Priority will always be subjective and vary according to individual needs.

The Firewalls proposal, like most of the other remaining Ubuntu
specifications, is available for funding as a bounty arrangement, open to
anyone from the community who is capable of implementing it.

-- 
 - mdz