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Especially as if someone is able to capture ifconfig data, they can probably send a curl request to a malicious web server and expose the NAT IP as well.
by mbreese 9mo ago
Especially as if someone is able to capture ifconfig data, they can probably send a curl request to a malicious web server and expose the NAT IP as well.
- NewJazz 9mo agoOr if you happened to curl ipinfo Or if you had a script that did that and put the public v4 address in your taskbar.
- theamk 9mo ago> Or if you had a script that did that and put the public v4 address in your taskbar. do people still do that? Dynamic DNS is offered by so many providers now...
- account42 9mo agoJust because you can think of scenarios where the IPv4 setup doesn't make a different doesn't discount that there are scenarios where it does. Someone being able to observer some state is a different model from someone being able to perform actions on the system and the former has many more realistic scenarios in addition to the ones of the latter.
- theamk 9mo agoPeople post their ifconfig data all the time, example: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=402315 https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=402315