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because there are so few of them?

• orangeboats 2y ago
  Among all adjectives to describe the security issues of NAT, "few" is not one of them. _Especially_ when you remember that many are under the false impression that they are "protected" by NAT.
  • sambazi 2y ago
    imo the protection is real and a good tradeoff for a research project to become a mass medium (i.e. clients usually don't want incoming connections from the internet[1]) don't get me wrong, i like a global address space as much as the next internet native, but it's not for everyone to pay the price for it and nat makes it easy to opt-out of a large portion of the problem space. [1] my university used to give public-routed v4 to students connecting their winxp laptop to the network; guess what happend
    • fulafel 2y ago
      This seems to suffer from the common reasoning error of equating addressability with reachability. Your university can disable public reachability without NAT eg using firewalling.