MIT Technology Review Slams IPv6

PCM2 writes "In the MIT Technology Review, Simson Garfinkel, noted author of Internet security books, writes that "the next version of the Internet Protocol, IPv6, will supply the world with addresses by the trillions. Too bad it will also make the Net slower and less secure." His article goes on to explain that all IPv6 code is untested and therefore insecure; that IPv6 makes encourages 'peer-to-peer based copyright violation systems'; and of course, that the switch is never going to happen anyway (and yet, somehow, the United States is 'falling behind')."

Comments

Trillions of new addresses

[strider69666]

Think of all the pr0n sites! Now instead of millions of sites full of crap, we get TRILLIONS of sites full of crap! Yippeee!!!!

Simson Garfinkel ....

[HrothgarReborn]

... Didn't he sing "Bridge over Troubled Water"?

Simon and Garfunkel

[ReadParse]

I thought they were still on tour. And, anyway, what do they know about -- oh wait... never mind.

RP

Re:untested code...

[EddWo]

You do know that isn't try don't you?
NT boots into protected mode from NTLDR.
Dos apps run in NTVDM a virtual machine that simulates the dos environment.
NT is a pure 32bit protected memory multi tasking OS. It was written from scratch from 1988 onwards.
They made it compatible with the existing APIs for the DOS based systems but it is fundamentally different underneath.
They are so different that it took another decade till Windows XP to unite the two product lines and provide enough compatibility options for everything from dos, win16, win32 and directx games to get everyone to migrate with minimal difficulty. At the same time they had to compromise on some of the benifits of the new kernal, such as securiy, in order to ensure compatibility.
Sure theres still a recovery console option you can boot into, but it isn't based on dos, the command syntax just looks the same.

Longhorn is where the migration away from the decade old Win32 programming model begins, but backwards compatibility has always been one of Microsofts selling points, so support for it is likely to remain for at least another decade.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1998 /w inntfs.asp