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A comment on IPv4 Depletion.

Re:IPv4 Depletion by sliken on Thursday June 25, 2015 @06:29PM (#9781319)
Seems like IoT would have much more to offer with IPv6. Currently you buy a "internet enabled" schlage deadbolt for your front door and it connects to cloud to enable remote lock/unlock. If you could count on a visible IP address products/services could skip such things.

Again it's a chicken and egg problem, nobody does anything cool assuming IPv6 because few have it. Few have it, because you can't do anything cool with it.

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Re:IPv4 Depletion by steckerbrett on Thursday June 25, 2015 @07:09PM (#9781495)
World accessible devices is a pretty scary concept. If you have your garage door controlled by an ESP8266 it would take a single host to denial of service attack it, maybe even just one server to denial of service attack every garage door in the united states.
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Re:IPv4 Depletion by koffiezet on Friday June 26, 2015 @06:48AM (#9783452)
It's not because it's public addressable that it would be public accessible.
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