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- Embed this notice@wolf480pl @novenary @tetra Right, although ending up on the same network segment as someone else router is probably rare.
Meanwhile I'd say most people really ought to have proper firewalls at home because of things like embedded/IoT devices* which should often be entirely isolated from the internet or at the very least restricted from it, plus maybe also other parts of your network.
They tend to end up in botnets due to their centralised management, often deal with quite personal/sensitive data, and are often completely forgotten because we think of them as appliances. Home networks need to get better than moat-style thinking of security.
*I'm counting printers, TV set-top-boxes, video game consoles, … in that category btw