alt Hacker News> With NAT, I absolutely know my ESP32 is not vulnerable and exposed
I mean thats not actually true, uPnP will open ports up, as will misconfiguration.
The firewall is still the same in ipv6 vs 4, and has the same problems.
> With NAT, I absolutely know my ESP32 is not vulnerable and exposed
I mean thats not actually true, uPnP will open ports up, as will misconfiguration.
The firewall is still the same in ipv6 vs 4, and has the same problems.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but UPnP requires my ESP32 to initiate communication. Whereas giving it an IPv6 address would expose it to the entire www even before it attempts communication.