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if we're branching in to 'what other devices can be compromised' then that's a concern for any network 'private' IP or not. for example, even on a NATted v4 network if you get the right device (say if it's 'port forwarded', or you get malware on it another way (social engineering) you can pivot that way to another point in the network.

you can supply all the ACLs and firewalling to your heart's content on either private or public, it's just that public addresses have a heck of a lot less shitfuckery when you actually want to do useful things across the internet




if by "heck of a lot less shitfuckery" you mean "makes it a lot easier to exfiltrate all the data on a network" I completely agree, that was pretty much my point.


You seem to fail to grasp that it is the statefulness of NAT that provides security, not the private/public IP distinction. The same statefulness can be obtained by using... surprise, surprise, a stateful firewall. :-D

It is helpful to imagine NAT as a stateful firewall with packet modifying capabilities. Because that's what it is.

If your ISP is doing CGNAT, try pinging random 100.64.0.0/10 addresses. Marvel at the number of pongs you can receive. Hell, we even have online threads talking about this, so it can't be just my ISP being incompetent [0].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/1910m9w/discove...




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