alt Hacker NewsMisconfigured firewall is a gaping hole. Misconfigured NAT is not letting data from outside into your local network.
So firewall is actually worse than NAT.
Misconfigured firewall is a gaping hole. Misconfigured NAT is not letting data from outside into your local network.
So firewall is actually worse than NAT.
Even a correctly-configured NAT will let connections in from outside, and a lot of people don't understand this.
Personally I'd count "your security thing doesn't actually do the thing it's supposed to do" as being pretty bad on the security scale. At least people understand firewalls.