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CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

In practice the stagnation of IPv6 it seems to be a recognition of the unintended security that NAT with IPv4 adds. From a security perspective, having every device use a public IP and trying to prevent malicious software from simply opening whatever ports it needs per device would be another attack vector.

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shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
How about security through obscurity, to some extent? An IPv6 address isn’t a needle in a haystack, it’s a needle floating somewhere in the solar system. I think I have a quadrillion addresses assigned to me?

340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 unique IP addresses is a staggering amount to scan, no matter what horsepower you have to deploy.

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2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It’s slow but stagnation is a disingenuous way of putting it. www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

NAT brings no security, especially in this scenario. If you want to prevent malicious software from opening ports, you use a public facing firewall on your gateway. Which you should have for IPv4 as well.

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