Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user

Re:Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user by gumbojuice on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:01AM (#44233561)

I'm on a relatively large Indian ISP, and my home network gets an IPv6 network assigned, which is directly routable. Didn't think about it until tailscale told me it was connecting over a direct IPv6 connection and I wondered how that was possible. Sounds like 90s network rampage may be back here.

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Re:Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user by chgs on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:48AM (#44233873)

Well yes, natting is not normal on ipv6 - that’s a major feature.

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Re:Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user by icedchai on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @09:08AM (#44236343)

Direct connections are a good thing and how the Internet is supposed to work. NAT is the only reason IPv4 has lasted this long.

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Re:Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user by rlpb on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @05:40PM (#44241758)

Blocking inbound connections using connection tracking is orthogonal to NAT. It's just that NAT implies the former by default due to its nature.

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