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Old Jun 25, 2019 | 7:15 am
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Originally Posted by Qwkynuf
Wouldn't there be some NAT advantage, keeping other users on the same WiFi from seeing your devices? Not talking about sniffing traffic, more about poking at any ports that might be open.
Sure, but tablets/phones/PCs these days default to having their firewalls block everything anyway. Also the network engineer in me is forced to say that NAT isn't intended as a security feature. The main issue is people either sniffing unencrypted traffic or tracking what you're doing. But with how pervasive TLS is becoming, that becomes less and less possible.
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