Comment by Ekaros
6 days ago
My question with all of the lovely IoT devices that rely on that same mechanism is. Why would you even care about connection from outside? Shouldn't you also be secure against inside? Trusting on NAT alone is idiotic and foolish. If you want to protect a port do it properly in the first place. No excuses.
> Why would you even care about connection from outside?
Because if those nice IoT devices were reachable from the internet they could be compromised easily due to their likely shitty firmware with backdoors and hardcoded passwords.
> Trusting on NAT alone is idiotic and foolish.
Sure, but that's a far cry from saying NAT provides no security.