Look, either your fridge is accessible from outside so that you can check how much milk you have from the office, or it isn't. That's independent of whether its address happens to be NATted. It's dependent on the security policy you choose to apply.
Brian Charles Adams wrote: > > If it hides the IP address of your fridge, wouldn't that impair anyone from > drinking your milk? If access to the resource is blocked using NAT, then > isn't that aspect of security inherent to NAT? > > Charles > > +-------------------------+-------------------------+ > | Charles Adams | US Pipe and Foundry | > | Network Security Admin | 3300 1st Avenue North | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Birmingham, AL 35222 | > +-------------------------+-------------------------+ > > All opinions expressed here are solely my own. > > Peter Deutsch wrote: > ... > > > > The moral of the story? Traffic patterns and metadata can be powerful > tools and > > one person's junk is another person's data. You should not assume that the > > majority of people shouldn't or wouldn't care about it leaking out, even > if at > > first glance it seems pretty mundane. > > Absolutely true. Nothing to do with NATs. Any router conceals internal > traffic > patterns. Any router can hide internal addresses that don't talk to the > outside. > All the NAT hides is the number of logically (not physically) distinct hosts > > inside that do talk to the outside. This is not security; it might hide > the IP address of your fridge, but it doesn't hide your fridge. > > Brian
