My prediction for October...

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Fri, 05/08/2009 - 11:37
Pixelicious
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I've been playing with windows 7 lately; I have a prediction. October will be the month of "Omg wtf is 1090::FFEA:0001, and why can it get through my carefully crafted domain policy firewall rules"

it seems ipv6 is enabled by default in win7, and with most users unlikely to go and switch off ipv6, I imagine a lot of ipv6 traffic will just slip through firewalls and be used to blast some hosts.

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Tue, 05/12/2009 - 12:52
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uhh it was enabled by default

uhh it was enabled by default in Vista too... But you make a good point if firewalls are set to allow all and block on exception rather than the other way around ipv6 will go out, but there aren't many IPv6 aware web servers yet, and most firewalls are set to block by default and allow on exception.

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