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Won't the firewall on most domestic routers stop any incoming connections?

• piyh 3y ago
  In most cases, yes, in all cases, no. There's a lot of variants of "enumerate all devices on a private network if you visit a malicious webpage" exploits. https://medium.com/@brannondorsey/attacking-private-networks-from-the-internet-with-dns-rebinding-ea7098a2d325 https://medium.com/@brannondorsey/attacking-private-networks...
• ianburrell 3y ago
  Connections are only part of the danger. Browsers need to access the internet and they can have security bugs. Also, people download files and the programs that process them have bugs. People download programs and those can be dangerous. For the kernel, it is important that it protect against dangerous programs running on the system to keep them isolated.
• ilyt 3y ago
  It will also need update of CA lists, and if any vulnerability will be found in TLS1.3 it will need to update SSL libs to even access anythign