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Comment by morkalork

5 days ago

Seriously, what's even the point of having firewalls or NAT if you're going to let any external website just start opening up arbitrary connections to localhost? Is something embedded on the page for foobar.com any more trust worthy than a random IP trying to open a connection?

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