[theamk]

I sure hope not, this will bring in a new era for internet worms.

If some ISPs are not currently firewalling all incoming IPv6 connections, it's a major security risk. I hope some security researcher raises boise about that soon, and the firewalls will go closed by default.

[immibis]

My home router seems to have a stateful firewall and so does my cellphone in tethering mode - I don't know whether that one's implemented on the phone (under my control) or the network.

Firewalling goes back in the control of the user in most cases - the other day we on IRC told someone how to unblock port 80 on their home router.

[1oooqooq]

it kinda of already begun

[modeless]

Has there been a big ipv6 worm? I thought that the defense against worms was that scanning the address space was impractical due to the large size.

[1oooqooq]

i don't think they scan the entire space. but even before that there were ones abusing bonjour/upnp which is what chrome will bring back with this feature.