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Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?

  • From: Martin Hannigan
  • Date: Mon Sep 17 23:21:27 2007
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On 9/17/07, Barrett Lyon <[email protected]> wrote:


> On a totally unrelated note:  Not to make any accusation on the
> security of the end-point tunnel network what-so-ever, but an
> entirely other issue is the tiny bit of a security conundrum that
> default tunnels create -- tunneling traffic to another network
> without notifying the user seems dangerous.  If I were a tinfoil-hat
> security person (or a CSO of a bank for example) this would really
> freak me out.

I wonder how setting Internet policy by putting defaults on become part of the
regular operational internet? We're seeing a lot of this with v6 and I
can't figure out how this is being driven.

Best,

Marty