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> aren't you worried about security of those devices

Assuming he is having a firewall configured on his gateway then it is not any different from security standpoint than being behind a NAT.

For example in my university, all computers have a public IPv4 address, it still does not mean you can connect to them from outside, but if you need to open a port to the world you don't need to deal with all that NAT crap.



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