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yellow_lead • today at 1:38 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> I'm guessing here, but my money would be on freezer ICS systems being made available to the world by accident by way of NAT-PMP on a consumer router.

Why would there be accidental port mappings on their router though? I could maybe see owners setting it up so they could monitor from home, but even that is a bit of a stretch for rural supermarket owners


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bedstefar • today at 1:40 PM

> Why would there be accidental port mappings on their router though?

That's the point of NAT-PMP / UPnP, it just works (for game servers, torrent clients, industrial control systems etc.)

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