Comment by nottorp

Comment by nottorp 3 days ago

3 replies

The thing is, this upgrade you two are praising is designed to satisfy the original article's needs and no one else's.

Why do all those devices need to talk to each other btw? It's never specified. Is it a user need or a data collection/spyware need?

In a world where security articles make the news saying that you could obtain access to something IF the attacker already has local root and IF the moon is in a quarter phase and IF the attacker is physically present in the same room as the machine and this means the sky is falling...

... we should be questioning why disparate devices on unrelated home networks need to talk to each other.

watermelon0 3 days ago

Peer-to-peer requires that devices from different home networks talk to each other. Gaming, audio/video chat, screen sharing, file sharing (torrents), etc.

The whole idea of the internet from the beginning is that devices can talk with each other.

pcarroll 3 days ago

The need is real. You are a service provider. You need to manage equipment at customer sites. You need to access them simultaneously. But all the customers are using the same subnet... If Bell gave out cellphones with the same phone number, how can you call anybody? But they still do. Many devices have cloud access, but every manufacturer is different. It is a nightmare at scale.

preisschild 3 days ago

There are completely legitimate usecases that are not "spyware" related for true end-to-end connectivity

For security there is still the firewall