[97665] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: An IPv6 address for new cars in 3 years?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Jun 29 01:04:07 2007
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:03:14 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
Cc: Paul Ferguson <fergdawg@netzero.net>, ops.lists@gmail.com,
rich@nic.umass.edu, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0706290430580.1179@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:31:51 +0000 (GMT)
"Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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> > - -- "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > >On 6/29/07, Rich Emmings <rich@nic.umass.edu> wrote:
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> > >> Topicality: Looks like someone, somewhere intends to be live
> > >> with IPv6 in 3-5 years. Off Topic: The privacy and security
> > >> ramifications boggle the mind....
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> > >Fully mobile, high speed botnets?
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> > *bing*
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> I can't help it:
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> "If a bot-car is headed north on I-75 at 73 miles per hour for 3 hours
> and a bot-truck is headed west on I-90 at 67 miles per hour, how long
> until they are 129 miles apart?"
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Hmm -- I was going to say 127.1 miles apart, but that's not a v6
address... 1918 miles apart?
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
