Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> writes: > Let me put it this way, I have personally found an anon-ftp server with > company confidential documents on it, that was reachable from the > outside without the owners knowledge, because there was a port-forward > in the residential gateway that the owner wasn't actively aware of, and > the NAS had anon-ftp turned on without the owners active knowledge.
Just take a look at many university networks. The ones I know use public IPv4 space, no NAT and many times not firewalls. Now take one of those scanner / printer thinks with anon FTP saving all document scanned on their local disk drive. Or power full laser with a power supply accessible via SNMP private. I think many people are accustomed to the "security" they get from NAT and don't think that there is anything else. Jens -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Foelderichstr. 40 | 13595 Berlin, Germany | +49-151-18721264 | | http://blog.quux.de | jabber: [email protected] | --------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
