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Re:Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms by jve on Friday December 22, 2023 @11:10AM (#38735479)
NAT was/is a great for blocking incoming connections by default. A lesson I learnt when I found in early Windows XP days that my files are gone and a .txt note was left on my C: disk...
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Re:Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms by organsnyder on Friday December 22, 2023 @11:36AM (#38735813)
A non-NAT firewall can have the same default rules.
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Re:Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms by throwup238 on Friday December 22, 2023 @11:13AM (#38735516)
Remember when connecting an unpatched system to the internet would get it infected by the Blaster worm within the day?

I ‘member.

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