[AusNOG] Au IPv6 doubling?

[Russell Langton]

Hopefully this Apple announcement will help things along....
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=05042016a
At WWDC 2015 we announced the transition to IPv6-only network services in
iOS 9. Starting June 1, 2016 all apps submitted to the App Store must
support IPv6-only networking.

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 6 May 2016 7:10 AM, "Mark Delany" <g2x at juliet.emu.st> wrote:
> >
> > On 06May16, Mark Smith allegedly wrote:
> >
> > > Possibly, and it doesn't matter.
> > >
> > > https://technet.microsoft.com/library/bb877979
> > >
> > > Every version of Windows since then has had a host firewall
> >
> > Exactly.
> >
> > I know this has been done to death, but the idea of an CPE firewall is
> > becoming pretty meaningless as you have 10s or 100s of IP connected
> > devices on the inside. All containing dubious software written by
> > not-very-caring vendors, such as IP cameras that reach back outside
> > the network to upload streams to dropbox.
> >
> > I think we have to start thinking of the home network as a naturally
> > hostile environment - just as we do the wifi network at the local
> > coffee shop.
> >
>
> I always wonder if and how often people who express this concern have and
> do, without any concern or consideration, connect their laptop, smartphone
> or tablet to cafe, conference, hotel, corporate or friends' networks
> without first asking if there is a network firewall and then inspecting the
> firewall rule set.
>
> If the don't (and they probably don't) then they've been implicitly been
> relying on host security to protect them, just haven't realised it yet.
>
> If anything, I think the biggest threat to laptops, smartphones etc. are
> completely unencrypted public WiFi networks (i.e. not even WEP) that are
> "secured" using a portal. Sniffing that traffic is exceptionally easy on a
> Linux host, as long as the Wifi card supports monitor mode. That is not a
> special feature - it has come with the 3 laptop/desktop WiFi cards I've
> bought since 2009 (including cheap TP-Link ones) and the NIC that came in
> my 2013 Dell laptop, and I didn't specifically look for it as a feature
> when buying.
>
> Regards,
> Mark.
>
> >
> > Mark.
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