Re: Security provided by a router?

From: ATroutThatCodes (ATroutThatCodes_at_River.com)
Date: 01/26/05

  • Next message: David H. Lipman: "Re: Security provided by a router?" 
    Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:06:25 -0500

    Frank, Matt Gibsons reply signifies the excellence

    and professionalism which defines the high majority

    of NEWSGROUP conversations. And I could not

    have explained it as well as he did. Ask David Lipman

    to remove the necrotizing goat testicles sewn to his

    forehead before he attempts to converse in NEWSGROUPS.

    Did you get that Dave, learn how to spell newsgroup before

    wasting time and space with your retarded posts. I'll send

    you some tokens for the pinball machine...

    "Frank" <Frank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:DA0A8F88-2674-40C0-9D0A-0A6AEB2BB2EC@microsoft.com...
    > This may sound dumb, but while I know Windows fairly well, I've never
    > been a
    > hacker. I understand what a router does, about IP addresses, NAT, and
    > how a
    > Public IP Address gets converted to a Private IP Address. But I don't
    > understand why, if the router so willingly does the translation, it
    > makes any
    > difference to a hacker whether one is between the computer and the
    > Internet
    > or not. Could someone give me a couple of examples of what a hacker
    > would
    > like to do that a router and NAT prevent? I do understand what
    > Stateful
    > Packet Inspection is, and the advantages of that are obvious to me.

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