[oefrha]

> However, allowing a user to intentionally let a piece of software listen for outside connections is in no way insecure.

It is. Considering the kernel access often given to multiplayer games for anti cheat, and the abysmal attention to security and ability to write secure code by the average application developer, letting Internet randos send arbitrary instructions directly to your machine may not be the best idea.

[billytetrud]

If the software is executing "arbitrary instructions" from remote sources, then its a malicious piece of software, or so horribly negligent to amount to the same thing. So I don't agree that direct connections are the problem - the badly written software is the problem.