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VladVladikofflast Friday at 10:22 PM1 replyview on HN

>25000 devices exposed directly

How does this happen? Doesn’t pretty much every ISP give a router with their modem? How do people manage this?


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hdgvhicvyesterday at 12:04 AM

In ipv4 these will be src-natted and thus have a statefuo firewall by necessity.

In IPv6 they likely will auto configure onto a public ip address which may not have a stateful firewall.