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Re: European ISP enables IPv6 for all?

  • From: Paul Ferguson
  • Date: Tue Dec 18 10:55:14 2007

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- -- "Christopher Morrow" <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Dec 17, 2007 9:59 PM, Paul Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> And in fact, "threat propagation" in a v6 world may actually
>> be worse than expected, and naiveté may actually contribute to
>> a larger-scale attack, given the statistical possibility of
>> potentially more victims.
>
>
>naivete because folks believe the 'v6 is more secure' propoganda? or
>some other reason?

Yes. :-)

>> Address space size, and proximity, may well be red herrings in
>> this discussion.
>
>can you expand on this some?

Someone else mentioned "self-infliction" in this thread, and that's
spot on.

Over the course of the past year or more, we've seen less & less
"scanning & self-propagating" malware, and more & more self-infliction,
either by being duped via social engineering or just by drive-by
infections/compromises.

As it stands, now -- and unless the pendulum swings the other way --
the whole "...v6 address space is larger, thus it is much harder to
scan and thus propagation of worms is much harder..." train of thought
is completely misguided.

- - ferg

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