A lot of users apparently have open RPC ports #14574

Discussion in #bitcoin-core-dev Freenode revolving around many users apparently having the RPC port listening on public IP addresses.

Unknown why, possibly copying random configurations.

esotericnonsense | if this is actually a problem, could there be a warning sign or something in the corner of the gui that says 'rpc is enabled, did you know?'? (maybe it already exists)
wumpus | esotericnonsense: I think that's a good suggestion, no that doesn't exist, feel free to make an issue!

I'm not sure of the scale of this and how problemy it is, but if mumblings I've heard about 3000+ nodes having publicly accessible RPC are true it seems unlikely to be a wilful configuration.

Not copying random configurations, it's the default, if no specific bind IP addresses are specified. #14532 addresses this.

Of course, there is another problem - everything should run behind firewall nowadays and all ports should be closed / filtered by default, so even if bitcoind listens to interface, it should not be accessible by default. But that's issue of users incompetent in configuring their devices, not of Bitcoin Core.

#14532 was merged