said by tubbynet:said by nixen:It means there's enough address space that you'll be able to telnet to your toaster from your island vacation spot.
however, with this newfound flexibility comes the responsibility of the end user to secure all internet facing devices. granted - nat isn't much security, but it does provide a first layer to keep the script kiddies out. i can just see the port-scans going on scanning hunndreds of blocks per second and looking for openings and exploits. for the majority of embedded devices, there is no real way to "patch" the system without going through a bit of trouble. i can see a lot of pwnage happening.
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Would suck to have your toaster hacked. And given the auto ad hoc networking that the one WiFi consortium is working on, it wont be long before our ultra-connected appliances rise up and kill us!
