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Re: do we have a firewall in the phone?

 

On 04/03/2015 02:13 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> While connected to a Wifi zone, I launched in the phone from the
> terminal app:
> 
> $ nc -l 12345
> 
> and from my netbook, connected to the same Wifi zone:
> 
> # telnet 192.168.1.11 12345
> Trying 192.168.1.11...
> Connected to 192.168.1.11.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> aaaa
> 
> and ofc the connect worked and the typed chars 'aaaa' show up in the above
> nc-session?
> 
> I.e. the phone is completely open on all ports!!! Can I activate and
> configure some inbound firewall in the phone?
> 

ufw is shipped on the phone[1]. You can open a terminal and/or connect over adb
and do:
$ sudo ufw enable

[1]
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UncomplicatedFirewall
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Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/

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