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Sorry but your argument is moot. Yes NAT is not firewall. No my devices are not receiving random packets with internal IP addresses often enough for me to worr
by ozim 3y ago
Sorry but your argument is moot. Yes NAT is not firewall.
No my devices are not receiving random packets with internal IP addresses often enough for me to worry about it.
Even better not single of my devices living behind only nat in 20+ years was taken over or ransomed.
If it would be real problem I would hear about it daily and - if it would be so easy - all kinds of APT groups would take over devices behind NAT en mass. I don’t believe that any residential router has firewall enabled by default and only devices that are taken over are ones really having public IP.
Anyone can prove me wrong sharing links to articles and instances where there was occurrence of mass takeovers using NAT traversals.
- Arnavion 3y ago>Even better not single of my devices living behind only nat in 20+ years was taken over or ransomed. Yeah, because you didn't turn off the firewall. And/or because your ISP was being nice / competent and not routing packets to you that didn't make sense for your assigned route.
- ozim 3y agoStill my point is right, NAT traversal hacking is not an issue and is complicated enough to not be practical. Residential off the shelf routers don’t have firewall for incoming traffic. For business use you always put hardware firewall behind ISP router, I don’t have firewall at home.
- justsomehnguy 3y ago> Residential off the shelf routers don’t have firewall for incoming traffic [citation needed]
- doubleg72 3y agoThis is 100% wrong.. all consumer routers have firewall functionality built in.
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