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As a developer on a product that uses websocket extensively, I'm afraid that this will lead to the already huge distrust in the technology. If IT admins get wi
by narrowtux 6y ago
As a developer on a product that uses websocket extensively, I'm afraid that this will lead to the already huge distrust in the technology.
If IT admins get wind of this they'll just block it (or never unblock it since it's been blocked by some from day 1) and our product gets degraded experience.
- dicknuckle 6y agolike dropping ICMP replies on firewalls. idiotic because it gives a very false sense of security. it's been a useless "security" practice since the 90s.
- 1over137 6y agoBut don't firewalls drop everything inbound by default? So it's more that people don't know they should create rules to allow ICMP, no?
- concerned_user 6y agoConnection comes from your browser i.e. localhost to yourself, firewall is not setup to block such connections in most cases.
- narrowtux 6y agoYes, false sense of security hits the nail on the head. Fits right there with unnecessary password rules too.
- rasz 6y agoZonealarm's "!1ALERT!! x.x.x.x is h4x0r1ng you with ICMP packets!" sold $millions worth of placebo in early 2000. http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/media/pdf/ZA_Manual.pdf http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/media/pdf/ZA_Manual.pdf