I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fine

Re:I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fine by throw0101c on Saturday June 01, 2024 @04:41PM (#40548914)

> The "kids and enemy states" are just hosing address ranges.

If you could scan one million addresses every second it would take about 500,000 years to scan just one /64. Not sure how practical that would be.

When I was still with an ISP that did IPv6 my Asus would block any incoming connection attempt unless it was a reply (SPI firewall), though it may have (IIRC) allowed pings in by default.

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Re:I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fine by tflol on Saturday June 01, 2024 @10:48PM (#40550940)

SPI firewall looks interesting, appreciate the education.

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Re:I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fine by rainonmoon on Saturday June 01, 2024 @11:31PM (#40551118)

Yeah that is an absolutely bonkers amount of time so you're probably right in that the approach of low-effort wide net-casting attackers would have to change. I'm curious to know how Shodan etc. deal with this.

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Re:I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fine by kalleboo on Sunday June 02, 2024 @02:35AM (#40551899)

Shodan ran an NTP pool time server on IPv6 and harvested the addresses of machines that checked in to get the time. Pretty clever.

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