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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by Havoc on Monday November 25, 2019 @02:57PM (#21632116)
>ipv6 allows everyone to be an equal on the internet again. Right now half of the computers hooked up to the 'net aren't even given a routable IP address.

Given how sht the security on IoTs is I'm not convinced giving everything a routable IP is a good idea frankly. At least not until the IoT players up their game significantly

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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by noodlesUK on Monday November 25, 2019 @09:42PM (#21635212)
Unfortunately NAT has made us lazy. If even a small number of a particular type of IOT device is being deployed on native IPv6 networks, you’ve got to face the security consequences anyway.

Also NAT is not a firewall, but that’s a story for another day.

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