30 Jan
2011
30 Jan
'11
9:41 a.m.
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:17 +0000, "Paul Stimpson"
<paul(a)stimpsonfamily.co.uk> wrote:
I'm also expecting to see a massive surge in
botnets and spam as
people who don't understand IPv6 are put onto it and don't realise
that the firewall in their PCWorld home router doesn't protect IPv6
machines.
It will be interesting to see what the standard cheapo Netgear/D-Link
router people buy does by default - the very nature of NAT usage in
current routers (evil though NAT is in its own way) does mitigate
somewhat against incoming attacks. Will everyone end up with a publicly
routable IPv6 address for each device in their house? In which case yes,
let's hope they come with decent firewalls enabled out of the box! :)
--
Richard Dignall
richard(a)dignall.co.uk