On Aug 26, 2010, at 1:51 PM, jean-michel bernier de portzamparc wrote:
> IPv6 in the press
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/06/ipv6_security_nightmare/
It's true that a marginally-informed person said that at DefCon. The scary part
isn't that he said it, it's that he teaches courses at a junior college and
therefore has the ear of a large number of even-less-well-informed people. It's
true that some publicity-seeking journalist, doing no investigation and asking
nobody who is better-informed what reality might be, wrote an article with the
intention of creating publicity. What passes for journalism these days often
has a pretty tenuous relationship with reality.
There are in fact firewalls, if you consider a firewall to be a security
solution. There is one format (RFC 4291) that puts a MAC address into an IPv6
address, just like XNS, IPX, DECNET V, and OSI did. you might take a look at
RFC 4941. The predecessor of RFC 4941 was written in 2001, the last time this
flap ran around the Internet. yada yada yada
Go back to sleep.
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