Peter Deutsch wrote: ... > > The moral of the story? Traffic patterns and metadata can be powerful tools and > one person's junk is another person's data. You should not assume that the > majority of people shouldn't or wouldn't care about it leaking out, even if at > first glance it seems pretty mundane.
Absolutely true. Nothing to do with NATs. Any router conceals internal traffic patterns. Any router can hide internal addresses that don't talk to the outside. All the NAT hides is the number of logically (not physically) distinct hosts inside that do talk to the outside. This is not security; it might hide the IP address of your fridge, but it doesn't hide your fridge. Brian
