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Re:IPv6 may already be irrelevant – but so is moving off IPv4 on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @08:40AM (#41924460)
Except it's not 16 million containers. You need addressing for every link in the network. Want 10 racks of 20 servers with redundant switching in each, redundant spines in the network rack? That's 60 physical links, each of which need two addresses, and that's just the fabric underlay network. You haven't created the actual overlay networks yet, which you need multiple of (front end, back end, database, storage...).

Consider that 200 servers is a drop in the bucket at some scales, you can see why data centre is moving to V6 only.

Re:IPv6 may already be irrelevant – but so is moving off IPv4 on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @08:31AM (#41924350)
That's only true if you aren't behind CG-NAT. If you are, your firewall can port forward all it wants but it won't matter, the ISP would have to also port forward to you.
You sure about that?

> They also say they can share your personal information with dealers (there are lots of those around for sure), social media platforms, advertising companies, joint marketing partners, SIRIUS XM radio service, law enforcement, regulatory agencies, and other government agencies.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/ford/

Re:Second Factor SMS: Worse Than Its Reputation on Thursday July 11, 2024 @12:22PM (#40938215)
I guess theoretically phishing could be considered MiTM, but the latter term generally implies the attack is fully transparent to the user, whereas phishing convinces the user to insert the malicious party themselves.
Re:Second Factor SMS: Worse Than Its Reputation on Thursday July 11, 2024 @12:20PM (#40938200)
Because banks are financial institutions and every decision they make is based in that. If the cost of insurance is less than the cost to actually secure the system, they will choose that every time.

Banks and payment processors have some of the worst technical debt. For example, a lot of transactions are processed using the ISO8583 standard, a binary bitmap-based protocol from the 80s. The way cryptography was bolted onto this was the minimum required to meet auditing standards: specific fields are encrypted but 99% of the message is left plaintext without even an HMAC.

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Re:SSH3: SSHv2 using HTTP/3 and QUIC on Sunday December 17, 2023 @01:27AM (#38670809)
You're thinking of SSH keys, which are not certificates. SSH certificates are indeed x.509: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6187