Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition...
by rixthefox on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @05:28AM
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If an adversary knowing your IP address scheme it’s so bad to you, you’re not doing it right.
Security through obsecurity is not security.
Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition...
by jddj on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @06:28AM
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I wonder if whoever coined that phrase knew that it would be used so often in contexts where people want both obscurity and security based on their own respective merits.
Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition...
by otabdeveloper4 on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @12:45PM
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> Security through obsecurity is not security.
Yes, let's just flash a giant "welcome, nobody is home right now" sign to burglars whenever you leave the house unlocked.
Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition...
by bert64 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:18AM
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How is anyone going to discover that?
You're going to have a minimum of a /64, noone is going to scan that looking for devices.
Even if they do, your firewall is not going to allow the traffic unless you've explicitly configured it to do so.
The only way someone will discover devices, is by analysing outbound traffic you make. Outbound IPv6 traffic will come from randomised addresses so the addressing information is useless. Other things disclosed by the devices (eg user-agent headers on web browsers and other fingerprintable data) are protocol agnostic.
Yes there is. I sure as fuck don't want random people from the Internet to know how many devices and what kind populate my home LAN.