Re:Of course smart homes are targets for hackers
by chx on Saturday October 29, 2016 @12:50PM
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Sure but port scanning and forming a massive botnet is impossible if they are not even capable of listening on an open port which NAT gives you for free. It's like the lemonade you could make when life you gives you lemons. Except now it's spoiled too.
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Re:Of course smart homes are targets for hackers
by closeparen on Saturday October 29, 2016 @01:18PM
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On the other hand, UPnP is the only currently viable strategy for average people to run devices on their home networks and control them from the internet without looping in a third party server.