The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)

Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) by eadmund on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:35PM (#25575339)

You don't need a firewall; you just need not to be listening on a port. And if you want to receive a file on a port, you can … start listening on it.

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Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) by willghatch on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @09:14PM (#25577584)

I wish I could upvote this 1000 times. Most firewalls are just so much security theater cargo culting. NAT and universal firewalls have done immeasurable, and at this point practically irreversible, damage to network freedom and free software.

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Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) by domenukk on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:38AM (#25580534)

And exploits

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