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Any router running a poor NAT implementation (aka most of them) essentially has a built in firewall bypass for the right attacker.

A naive NAT implementation can allow an attacker to bypass the firewall.



Curious, could you expand on this?


I gave an example just a few comments above this. Alice never wanted Charles' traffic, the firewall should not have let it through. But because the NAT is dumb, and the firewall rules are often tied to the NAT on these crappy home routers, it's allowed. So now because Alice wanted to talk to Bob, she opened a port to the world that she never wanted opened as wide.


Thanks! (you added this afterwards, right? Or it's just me being tired and skipping this)




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