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Re: European ISP enables IPv6 for all?
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:49:18 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:
On Dec 17, 2007 9:59 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:And in fact, "threat propagation" in a v6 world may actually be worse than expected, and naiveté may actually contribute to a larger-scale attack, given the statistical possibility of potentially more victims.naivete because folks believe the 'v6 is more secure' propoganda? or some other reason?
Yes. :-)
Address space size, and proximity, may well be red herrings in this discussion.can you expand on this some?
Someone else mentioned "self-infliction" in this thread, and that's spot on. Over the course of the past year or more, we've seen less & less "scanning & self-propagating" malware, and more & more self-infliction, either by being duped via social engineering or just by drive-by infections/compromises. As it stands, now -- and unless the pendulum swings the other way -- the whole "...v6 address space is larger, thus it is much harder to scan and thus propagation of worms is much harder..." train of thought is completely misguided. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHZ+v6q1pz9mNUZTMRAviAAKC1z/Q0m1xzFmSkah5WL8xrbD/cEgCfaKgi xQHKSq8Tx8D5JEv6ObrGVoQ= =mdeP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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- Re: /48 for each and every endsite (Was: European ISP enables IPv6 for all?) JAKO Andras (Dec 19)
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- Re: European ISP enables IPv6 for all? Adrian Chadd (Dec 18)
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- Re: European ISP enables IPv6 for all? Donald Stahl (Dec 18)
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