Re: 2011 Security Predictions?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:12:22 EST, Shawn Merdinger said:
> Hide your kids, hide your wife -- it's the time of year when we start
> seeing articles on their crystal ball security predictions.
>
> I'm wondering what folks on the list expect for 2011?   Thoughts?

IPv6 will finally *really* take off, as the imminent exhaustion of IPv4 space
leaves the malware vendors less address space to hijack.

Somebody will use fast-flux DNS and a botnet to deploy a truly enterprise-grade
ultra-fast DNS hosting service - you're always guaranteed an authoritative
answer from a host no more than 2 network hops from you.  The first customers
will be the people who recently had their domains taken down by the FBI.

Somebody else will use a botnet to deploy an enterprise-grade 6to4 relay
service.  Again, you'll be guaranteed a gateway at most 2 hops away.

The FTC will deploy their proposed do-not-track registry.  Companies will then
use the 'do-not-track' marker as a tracking marker.

All of the above will each lead to at least one unintended consequence I
haven't thought of yet, and at least 3 industry pundits going "How could
anybody possibly have predicted this would happen?".

(And if any of this actually happens - I hereby either claim ownership of the
idea, or claim I heard it in an IRC channel, whichever is more beneficial to me :)

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