alt Hacker NewsNAT doesn't act as a security perimeter, and not having NAT doesn't mean that your devices are exposed to the Internet.
NAT is about dealing with address space shortages, not security.
NAT doesn't act as a security perimeter, and not having NAT doesn't mean that your devices are exposed to the Internet.
NAT is about dealing with address space shortages, not security.
This gaslighting keeps being repeated, but fact of the matter is that any consumer/home network will be exposed to the internet if they're using SOHO equipment via IPv6 and won't be via IPv4.
And huge % of SOHO routers won't even allow configuring IPv6 firewall which makes security a disaster.