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		eadmund on Dec 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) You don't need a firewall; you just need not to be listening on a port. And if you want to receive a file on a port, you can … start listening on it.

willghatch on Dec 30, 2020 [–]

I wish I could upvote this 1000 times. Most firewalls are just so much security theater cargo culting. NAT and universal firewalls have done immeasurable, and at this point practically irreversible, damage to network freedom and free software.

domenukk on Dec 30, 2020 | [–]

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