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Re: Security over IPv6 networks



On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Noah Meyerhans wrote:

> Sure, but it's not like the next IIS worm is going to work on your 3G
> cell phone. ( Oh, please, cell phone vendors, don't start embedding IIS
> in your phones! )

hell no! I will never buy such a device than :P

> Yes there will be a lot of IPv6 devices, but they'll
> be really really diverse, both in terms of software and hardware.

partially true. even if they differ in hardware and software would you
still like your washing machine destroing your favourite shirt?

> My question, though, is this: Would it not be possible to find out all
> the local nodes by pinging ff02::1?  That'd make it a lot easier to find
> likely targets without having to make random guesses.

afaik all the differen link local, local nodes and etc that have ffXY::
whould never be visible outside your network.

Fabio

-- 
drac (1.11-7) unstable; urgency=low
  * added IPv6 patch from the great IPv6 Team

 -- Noel Koethe <noel@debian.org>  Sun,  9 Feb 2003 19:33:00 +0100



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