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> if you think NAT hides your internal addresses

More like cgNAT makes you share the external address between many people. It gives you plausible deniability: "dear $forum admin, it's not me creating multiple accounts for trolling from the same IP address, it's the guy from the next building, I swear!" / "it's my neighbor's porn visible on https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/ not mine!"

Of course that's Not Security, that's just obscurity, but damn, it kinda does feel good :D



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