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Originally Posted by coolape
Why are you afraid of showing ur real IP in a hackers chat room?, Im certainly not, whats the worst they can do to me? they definately cant access my computer as I AM BEHIND A ROUTER, and my main computer is behind my freebsd box, and its basically a firewall, and my slackware box is behind the freebsd box aswell, and the rest are some where else in the house,.. and btw IF you were DDoS'd a firewall / router will not save your little backside, heck if you attacked by thousands of computers every second, u can have the fastest line in the world and you will still get disconnected...
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You have made one major mistake in dealing with hackers in this way. You assume you are secure. Don't. There are security flaws in FreeBSD (the same as any OS). I'll admit that I don't know what they are or how to exploit them, but they *are* there none the less. TBH, by broadcasting your real IP, you are asking to be hacked. In my experience, the people who claim they are safe from hacking are usually the ones who have (or have had) their networks hacked.
Don't assume you are safe behind a router either. There is a way (AT&T discovered it- will try and dig out the link) to discover how many computers are behind a router (even using NAT), and exactly what ports each is using.
So, it IS theoretically possible to access any computer, even behind a firewall and router.
True, a firewall/router won't stop a DDOS (although if the DDOS involves Pinging, a good firewall can reduce the effect). Broadcasting your IP does enable a hacker to DDOS your machine though. At least going through a BNC would slow them down.
As a side note, if you are happy to encourage people to DDOS you, I would hate to be on your UBR channel...