Subj : Re: the nothing to hide a
To   : Nightfox
From : Arelor
Date : Mon Feb 28 2022 03:18:30

  Re: Re: the nothing to hide a
  By: Nightfox to Vk3jed on Sun Feb 27 2022 10:25 pm

 >   Re: Re: the nothing to hide a
 >   By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Mon Feb 28 2022 03:42 pm
 > 
 >  Ni>> Many Synchronet BBSes have their messages available via the web.
 >  Ni>> Many Synchronet sysops choose to enable this by forwarding the web
 >  Ni>> port to their BBS machine.  But a sysop could easily disable that
 >  Ni>> functionality by not forwarding the web port, and I'm sure there's
 >  Ni>> also a setting in Synchronet to have it not run its web server.
 > 
 >  Vk> I love (not) how people assume we're all running behind a NAT. What por
 >  Vk> forwarding? ;)
 > 
 > You have all your ports exposed publicly to the internet?  Or perhaps there'
 > an alternative to NAT that I'm not aware of..?
 > I thought pretty much everyone with internet at home would be using a router
 > and I thought NAT a standard feature of a router for some level of protectio
 > 
 > Nightfox
 > 

Many rural areas have homes with a single computer in them. Village grandpas
just skip the router and connect their computer directly to the ethernet link
their ISPs give them. A router does not make much sense if you are only using a
single computer.

Besides, with IPV6 a computer may have an Internet routable address and be
completely exposed while being behind a router anyway.

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