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> There is really no reason for most devices to be publicly reachable. Everyone keeps holding this up as a positive, but it's absolutely not. Most devices aren't servers. Ever tried to call someone over the internet? Well, now you need a publicly reachable device. Please, stop spreading this ignorance. You rely on your devices being reachable from the internet every single day, you're just not aware of it, because you're using a barely-working pile of duct tape and string that sort-of allows peer to peer connections to happen, after some arcane STUN/TURN/whatever magic. If you wanted to send someone a file in the Olden Days, you'd just click on their IRC username, the client would open a connection to them and you'd send the file. Now you need to use iCloud or some nonsense, because apparently people believe that peer-to-peer connections aren't needed and shouldn't even work. |