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Tony Finch wrote:
| Seth Breidbart <sethb(_at_)panix(_dot_)com> wrote:
|>It gets much harder to scan IP space for zombiable machines when that
|>space is 128 bits wide than when it's 32 bits wide.
| People who run botnets don't have to scan for zombies. They identify
| themselves by joining IRC channels. If anything, the larger address
| space of IPv6 will make things worse.
Zombiable != "Zombied". Seth should really have said "scan for
[compromisable|insecure|open proxy|open relay et. al.] machines".
Minor nit: these days a lot of zombies self-announce using something
other than IRC on standard ports. HTTP on port 80. Etc.
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