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Re: Katrina Network Damage Report
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:01:21 +0200
On 11-sep-2005, at 14:40, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
And seriously, does the main assumption of v6, that every single toaster out there is going to become a v6 host, really not scare anyone?
Nope. I guess people have other things that scare them... See subject.
Giving IP connectivity to stuff that was just not designed from a security point of view .. I'm sure people have seen all the stories about network printers and electron microscopes running open relay smtp daemons, so when do I get to see a botnet full of compromised toasters that'll burn your toast to cinders if you try to disinfect them?
Well, because I want to NAT some stuff (i.e., Windows XP box...) and not other stuff (the machines that I actually use) my wireless base station that is also a print server needs to accept print jobs from both "the outside" and "the inside". So far, I haven't found any spam printouts yet...
In other words: 0wning random appliances isn't all that interesting.In fact, I would much rather allow access to pretty much anything else rather than a powerful general-purpose computer.
Current thread:
- Re: Katrina Network Damage Report, (continued)
- Re: Katrina Network Damage Report Randy Bush (Sep 10)
- Re: Katrina Network Damage Report bmanning (Sep 10)
- Re: Katrina Network Damage Report Todd Underwood (Sep 11)
- Re: Katrina Network Damage Report Sean Donelan (Sep 10)
- Re: Katrina Network Damage Report Todd Underwood (Sep 10)
- Re: Katrina Network Damage Report Todd Underwood (Sep 10)
- Re: Katrina Network Damage Report Steve Gibbard (Sep 10)
- Re: Katrina Network Damage Report Alan Spicer (Sep 11)
- Re: Katrina Network Damage Report Suresh Ramasubramanian (Sep 11)
- Re: Katrina Network Damage Report Iljitsch van Beijnum (Sep 11)
- Re: Katrina Network Damage Report Alan Spicer (Sep 11)
- Re: Lack of addresses outside US myth, was: Katrina Network Damage Report Iljitsch van Beijnum (Sep 11)
- Re: Katrina Network Damage Report Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 11)
- Re: Katrina Network Damage Report Iljitsch van Beijnum (Sep 12)
- Re: Katrina Network Damage Report Scott A Crosby (Sep 13)
- Re: Katrina Network Damage Report Suresh Ramasubramanian (Sep 13)