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Re: An IPv6 address for new cars in 3 years?

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Fri Jun 29 01:06:28 2007

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:31:51 +0000 (GMT)
"Chris L. Morrow" <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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> > - -- "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > >On 6/29/07, Rich Emmings <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Topicality: Looks like someone, somewhere intends to be live
> > >> with IPv6 in 3-5 years. Off Topic: The privacy and security
> > >> ramifications boggle the mind....
> > >>
> > >
> > >Fully mobile, high speed botnets?
> >
> > *bing*
> 
> I can't help it:
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> "If a bot-car is headed north on I-75 at 73 miles per hour for 3 hours
> and a bot-truck is headed west on I-90 at 67 miles per hour, how long
> until they are 129 miles apart?"
> 
Hmm -- I was going to say 127.1 miles apart, but that's not a v6
address...  1918 miles apart?


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb