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Re: Time to move beyond the 32 bit Internet.

2014-07-03 11:56:47
On 07/03/2014 10:35 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:

In the home, firewalls were never planned, and are the unintended
result of ISPs pushing NAT on end users.  (Either directly by
giving them the box, or indirectly by making multiple IP addresses
unaffordable/unobtainable)

I could agree with this view.



As for the "IoT with default password", that's exactly the security
problem that firewalls have *CAUSED*; and it's this part that I
really regret.

I'd argue that this has been caused by vendors being lazy/sloppy than
by firewalls. Poor practices/choices are just that: "poor
practices/choices". -- when you start making bad decisions on the
assumption that there's "something there" that prevents your poor
choices from being exploited, eventually you realize that "assumptions
are the mother of.. many of the problems" :-)

Cheers,
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Fernando Gont
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