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MIT Technology Review Slams IPv6

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lots-of-numbers-lots-of-words dept.

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')."

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  1. Re:IPv6 Support by man_ls · · Score: 0, Redundant

    By routers, I mean, I can't get an IPv6 address with Windows 2003 Server, from my ISP.

    Therefore, my ISP's routers are not using IPv6, even though my systems which aren't anything terribly special, have that ability.

  2. One ip address for each Ant by zeroclip · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There are so many IPv6 addresses that humanity will never run out of them--never, ever.

    The researches that made ipv4 probaly said the same thing.