You need old school circuit switched technology to secure packet switched networks. There is only one way to guarantee security. Turn it off. Make good backups and have the ability to go back to the way it was before the problem occurred regardless of the flavor of IP.
For every code, there is a de-code. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Magnus Hedemark Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 12:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Adding to the list of topics: IPv6 On 22 Jan 2004, Jon Carnes wrote: > IPv6's anti-spoofing is enough for me. It removes anonymity from the > packets that reach you, and gives you a clear path back to any hacker > or script kiddie. That will cut down on DOS and spam! I couldn't disagree more; DDOS, spam and virii are very often launched from zombie machines. You'll get a perfectly valid path back to a perfectly well owned box with a completely perplexed person that has no idea why you're getting irate with them. IPv6 doesn't do anything to stop this. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
