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Dylan16807yesterday at 4:21 PM1 replyview on HN

Since we're talking about programs that are trying to set up a connection no matter what, I'm going to say "not much". It's not significantly shrinking the attack surface and forcing attackers onto a plan B that's meaningfully harder to do. It just adds this layer of awkwardness to everything, and attackers shrug and adapt.


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ectosphenoyesterday at 4:33 PM

You block inbound to block inbound. Of course it doesn’t do anything for outbound. Acting like you can just turn inbound filtering off because of that is disingenuous.

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