Re: IPv6 Security [Was: Re: misunderstanding scale]

["Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>]

On Mar 24, 2014, at 6:37 AM, Timothy Morizot <tmorizot () gmail com> wrote:

> You'll pardon my skepticism over claims that unspecified security weaknesses make it impossible to do what we have 
> done and are continuing to
> do.

All this unfilterable ICMP makes for interesting times - I've already run across ND storms caused remotely 
(deliberately, IMHO).  Insane policies such as /64s for p2p link addresses don't help, either.

And the consonance of the English letters 'B', 'C', 'D', & 'E' when spoken aloud is quite likely to prove a major 
security issue, IMHO.  Time for folks to adopt the phonetic alphabet, if they absolutely must communicate verbally.

IPv6 has all the security issues associated with IPv4, plus a few new ones which are unique to IPv6.  Denying the 
latter doesn't make them go away.

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