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by hansel_der 1697 days ago
NAT was a thing much before ip addresses became scarse, is a key enabler in the "internets" ease of use as well as the principal ability to connect nearly double-digit billions of devices with about 200mio live addresses.

the end-to-end principle is mostly undermined by stateful firewalls and a total lack of secure-by-design in software developement, this will not change with ipv6

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Windows boxes with public IPs were amazing (eg: CodeRed/NIMDA) until XP's firewall came along.