On Mar 5, 2008, at 17:31 , Mark Andrews wrote:


On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:00:29PM +0000, Vadim Goncharov wrote:
* The last I read about IPv6 in mainstream news, there were major
concerns cited over some of the security aspects of the protocol.  I
also remember reading somewhere that IPv6 was supposed to address issues
like packet spoofing and DoS -- what became of this?

        Someone was feeding you a load of horse @$$!.

When Marcus Ranum is one of those questioning its security, I'm inclined to believe him. (Google "mjr ipv6 security" --- his point in a nutshell is that we're going to be fixing old IPv4 holes in new guises for a while.)

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