Re:Bore: A simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost
by hamandcheese on Sunday April 10, 2022 @12:53PM
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> All of my desktops and servers and laptops each have their own firewall
Sure, but there are plenty of devices on my network that I don’t have that sort of control over (i.e. my light bulbs).
Re:Bore: A simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost
by geocar on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:08PM
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Get different light bulbs; My light bulbs require a password and route-filter. If yours don't, your firewall isn't protecting you if your computer can reach them because someone can just send you and iframe that pokes your light bulbs.
All of my desktops and servers and laptops each have their own firewall, and this is good enough to protect against naughty programs who bind to INADDR_ANY instead of ::1 or a uds. I don't need to waste memory and latency on the router doing connection tracking that doesn't buy anything.
> I’m not sure if consumer hardware commonly supports this,
I have not run across consumer hardware that doesn't. I just tried a bunch of netgear, asus, and tplink kit and it was all fine. I've only run into a few ISPs that it didn't work with, and in every case a phone call was able to sort things out (because it had nothing to do with the consumer equipment). I suspect strongly that almost all consumer hardware commonly supports this.