You're completely right, I won't follow security experts' ideas on UI, just as I won't follow a UX designers' ideas on security.
I was happy to act as the go between to fix a long-standing problem, only to be told 6 month later that they accepted the change because we gave them a choice that was never even put on the table. The only possible effect of that is that we won't ask "security experts" again. At least those ones. ----- Original Message ----- > > > Am 08.12.2014 um 15:45 schrieb Bastien Nocera: > >>>> On 12/08/2014 12:51 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > >>> <snip> > >>>> This is wrong and you know about that - the firewalld folks have been > >>>> urged to use this zone for the Workstation product - it was a > >>>> Workstation team decision. > >>> > >>> What?! We discussed it, and it was deemed acceptable by you, and mitr. > >>> We went back and forth on this, and you agreed that it was a good > >>> cost/benefit decision. > >>> > >> We could choose between removing firewalld and accepting this zone ... > > > > Which you could have refused if you felt that it was an unacceptable > > compromise. > > Which you didn't do. Are you still going to argue that this wasn't > > _vouched_ for > > by you and the other firewall stakeholders? > > Google translates "vouched" to "verbürgt" > suck something is not guarantee for it > > beeing forced to accept something or get the firewall completly dropped > in the product is the opposite of a open discussion > > to be honest the way you agrue in this thread "it's the applications > fault if it listens to a port and not ours that we make the OS wide > open" don't let you appear as somebody who is open for a security > discussion killed always with "but then some things don't work magically > and we want that for user expierience" so you hardly would follow > advices from security experts no matter what they say > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
