I would comment that most likely the internal interface would be
using RFC1918 reserved address space, so an attacker 'out on the net'
somewhere wouldn't be able to route packets to the potential vicitim's
internal IP address.
Dax Kelson
Guru Labs
manufacturers and I have never
> installed one line of code without a previous user approval.
You definitely have a point.
However (playing devil's advocate), you've trusted Microsoft to silently
execute "any code" on your machine at least once before by installing
their closed-source operating system, and that is a massive amount of
unaudited code.
Dax Kelson
Guru Labs