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No, it would be straightforward for a worm to figure out what internal network addresses they were using, what routers there were behind, and send packets to those routers whose destinations were those internal network addresses (192.168.1.2 or whatever). NAT does nothing to stop that.

Most routers won't forward those packets. But that's got nothing to do with whether those routers are running NAT or not.



Straightforward? How do you send a packet with the wrong IP to a machine on the other side of the internet?


> Most routers won't forward those packets.

Good, we agree this is a pointless hypothetical which will never work. That does beg the question why even bring it up, though...


> Good, we agree this is a pointless hypothetical which will never work. That does beg the question why even bring it up, though...

Well you're the person best placed to answer that, since you brought it up.




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