Comment by badsectoracula
2 years ago
AFAICT there was a single YouTube video that started this[0] and they mentioned explicitly several times that this mainly works because they put it in "the open internet" as a server. Disabling the firewall was the icing on the cake and yet that is all sites that reported this[1], no mention about how the computer was not behind, well, anything that a desktop in the last couple of decades would be (and most likely beyond that, i remember around 2002 when i had a modem, i had to visit a web page at my ISP to allow me open various ports as many things were disabled by default).
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uSVVCmOH5w
[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/connected-windows-xp-internet...
The firewall was disabled by default in XP until SP2...
Yes, but in the video it isn't and he explicitly disables it. Windows XP even warns about it after he does it.