I’m surprised I don’t blog more about technical items since that’s what my day job is. Perhaps my blog is to escape from all things technical.
Anyway, I came across this dialog box the other day on one of my machines and had to laugh. 
It’s a great example of poor computer security and bad usability. It kind of defeats the purpose of a firewall if every time an application tries to start listening on a port, the OS asks you if it’s okay. Firewalls are not designed to be user-friendly. Firewalls are designed to work by policy. And policy doesn’t change when a new application starts up.