Re: 192.168 - why?

On Jul 25, 9:10 pm, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

True, but they're in a league where the reason to use non-routable IP
addresses is to limit external access -- another, very valid, reason.

I don't think so. It's too easy for one machine somewhere to be
compromised, allowing someone to proxy to any internal address. You
can't let one compromise turn into hundreds anyway. I honestly think
this is one of the worst arguments for using non-routable addresses.

DS
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