On 8/26/19 9:27 AM, mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 4:15 PM, Robert Marcano
<robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is a reasonable point of view, until you notice Linux desktops
evironments don't provide applications with a method to detect if they
are running on a private network or not (See Windows Home, Office,
Internet network settings). Then a non technical user start Rythmbox,
enable music sharing, and it works perfectly on their home network but
then decides to buy a WAN card/USB stick and suddenly all the music is
being shared to the world. I wish NetworkManager could do something
about these situations, maybe the default should be the public zone
for interfaces that receive public IP addresses.
I don't have a good answer to this, other than to complain to the
Rhythmbox developers. That's extremely bad if it's possible to
accidentally share your music to the world.
This isn't entirely an application issue. Let me give you another
example with an application build the GNOME way.
1) Setup Vino to share you desktop without a password on a trusted
network, GNOME Settings ask you for the network connection, you allow it
for "Wired Connection 1"
2) Suddenly you need to connect a wired connection that gives public IP
addresses.
3) Then your VNC server is shared to the world
You may think these thing don't happen, but yes it happen. My dumb ISP
every time to get support they ask you to connect directly to the modem,
that they don't support any other type of connection (WiFi). I know it
is BS, but people comply.
For the application the Wired Connection 1 is the same connection as
before, but the user doesn't know, don't expect user to know they need
to stop sharing it, they will think this works as with WiFi SSID names
that are different.
Michael
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