On 11-sep-2005, at 14:40, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
And seriously, does the main assumption of v6, that every single toaster out there is going to become a v6 host, really not scare anyone?
Nope. I guess people have other things that scare them... See subject.
Giving IP connectivity to stuff that was just not designed from a security point of view .. I'm sure people have seen all the stories about network printers and electron microscopes running open relay smtp daemons, so when do I get to see a botnet full of compromised toasters that'll burn your toast to cinders if you try to disinfect them?
Well, because I want to NAT some stuff (i.e., Windows XP box...) and not other stuff (the machines that I actually use) my wireless base station that is also a print server needs to accept print jobs from both "the outside" and "the inside". So far, I haven't found any spam printouts yet... In other words: 0wning random appliances isn't all that interesting. In fact, I would much rather allow access to pretty much anything else rather than a powerful general-purpose computer.