Re:Reasons for servers to support IPv6
by nomel on Saturday January 29, 2022 @05:43PM
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Having an outdated firmware (which could be solved by mandatory updates from the ISP, which appears to be the direction AT&T is going) is still much better than having no firewall at all. An incredible minority of people, who “manage” their household internet access are aware of any of this.
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If your firewall has exploitable outdated firmware, I might argue it's worse than no firewall because now you potentially have malicious code living on your network. Whereas if you don't have a firewall (on a home network) there generally isn't anything someone could get into anyway. "Oh I see port 22 is open." Great, there's nothing to SSH into anyway, who cares?