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Re: misunderstanding scale


From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 08:53:17 +0200

On Monday, March 24, 2014 02:41:00 AM Timothy Morizot wrote:

The original assertion was that there are unaddressed
security weaknesses in IPv6 itself preventing its
adoption. At least that's the way I read it. And that
assertion is mostly FUD.

The risks have less to do with IPv6, and more to do with the 
fact that boxes that lived on RFC 1918 behind NAT44 
"security gateways" may now, very possibly, be given a GUA 
address that now exposes them directly to the Interweb.

Mark.

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