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224 points gurjeet | 1 comments | 30 Mar 21 08:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source

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rnhmjoj ◴[30 Mar 21 18:13 UTC] No.26638168[source]▶

I wonder how much more it will take before the answer to "What is my IP address?" will simply be "Look in the settings" or "Just type ip addr in the terminal".

We are so used to NAT that we don't realize how crazy it is that you essentially have to ask a stranger what's your address. It's really difficult to explain this to someone with no networking knowledge. Nothing else works this way: phone numbers, emails or postal addresses.

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1. teawrecks ◴[30 Mar 21 18:33 UTC] No.26638463[source]▶

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Phone numbers, emails, and postal addresses all still route through multiple mediaries between source and dest, and neither end ever know what path it took. In other words, they are MITMed by design. And for these mediums of communication, you want it this way for everyone's safety and sanity.

The only way this works securely with internet packets would be tor.

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