[darkwater]

> As other people have mentioned, this was always supposed to be /possible/ it's akin to SSH. Sure, you can avoid some log spam and potential issues by firewalling it off- but it's meant to be possible to run it publicly, it has always been marketed this way so it's not "insane" that people did it.

I'm not blaming anyone, I'm just saying that if you put well-known software facing the Internet you are exposing yourself to more risks than not putting them on the Internet. And for a core infra software as SaltStack I don't really see a good reason to justify it. I don't justify either putting SSH publicly accessible unless you are a really, really small company or an individual.