![]() ![]() This is a scary thought, but I fear that we will be going down the road of the internet of things whether it is a good idea or a bad one. Suddenly to burn down a house you don't need to show up in person and light a match to start a house fire, it is just done anonymously over the internet with a few keystrokes. To a security researcher or a common ill willed hacker, the idea of a world connected to the internet brings about an excitement as unprepared people start connecting things to the internet, millions of potential security holes will crop up, instead of hackers stealing data off your computer, they are now able to access say your oven in your kitchen, turning it on and possibly creating a disaster inside your home. Having anything and everything connected to the internet sounds like a good idea until you talk to a security researcher. With so many addresses available we can use them for anything and everything. This is the idea that you could connect anything and everything you wanted to the Internet, toasters, headphones, your latest project, pretty much anything that you could possibly dream up. The buzzword of Ipv6 is “the internet of things”. With so many Ipv6 addresses available there is no reason to sell even a massive sub net of a /64 or even a /48, and so companies like Hurricane Electric and GoGo6 are giving away sub nets to allow users to have there own static Ipv6 addresses. ![]() ISP's have been charging for Ipv4 addresses at a price that is usually not a worthwhile purchase for the average hobbyist tech-engineer. ![]() With the advent of Ipv6, this enables the tech-minded community to invent things that were never before possible. For an introduction to Ipv6 and what it has to offer see this article, here. With Ipv6 the number of addresses is fantastically huge and should support the internet for the foreseeable future. The number of current ipv4 address is nearly expired and is becoming harder and harder to obtain a address based on the version 4 of the protocol. What is IPv6? In short IPV6 is the next iteration of the internet protocol. ![]()
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