• @Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world
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    011 months ago

    While this is true, the chances of it happening is pretty rare. Just because you have my IP doesn’t mean much. Sure you can scan for stuff like open ports and you can easily ddos in a lot of cases, but running a program on another players computer takes a lot more work.

    • @recapitated@lemmy.world
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      011 months ago

      Search news articles for “upnp”.

      I don’t think the plethora of tweens and overworked parents are staying on top of issues like these.