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["Greg W." <mttbrnsmls@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I also would like some means of controlling outbound behavior/detection.
I like to know what applications are making outbound connections to the
internet. And I would like the ability to control which applications can
and cannot connect to the internet. Now preventing an application from
connecting to the internet is probably best handled by settings within
the application itself. But it is the firewall that alerts me to the
application's internet behavior and to the fact that I may need to
change an application's setting to prevent it from connecting to the
internet.

So Ubuntu needs a better system for handling this. The Windows way is to
popup a prompt for every application's access attemp (lots of people
don't like this). So maybe this approach is not best. But something
needs to be done so that users can know and control what outgoing
connections are being made.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689818

Title:
  Feature Request: Allow / Deny incoming connections, outbound detection
  dialog

Status in Gufw:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  To allow a program to bypass the firewall filtering, one must grant
  access by pressing Allow and create a firewall rule.

  Secure network and eliminate risks by hiding the IP address by
  default.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fireflier.png

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