On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:20:20 +0100, "Anthony G. Atkielski"
<anthony(_at_)atkielski(_dot_)com> said:
jfcm writes:
I am sure that many security officers or generals would feel unatease if
they known their HQ IPv6 address can be just one unknown bit different from
the IPv6 address of a ennemy computer.
Nah ... security officers and generals--if they are competent--don't put
their HQ computers on an open network in the first place. That only
happens in the movies.
OK.. change "HQ computer" to "www.ANYTHINGBIG.com", and change "enemy" to
"random hacker in another country". There's boxes that *have* to be visible
to the world because they provide service and connectivity to the outside
world - and you can't even hand-wave "put them in a DMZ" because then you
still need that address mask to tell if the other end of the connection is
coming from outside, another DMZ machine, or an internal machine.
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