Default security functions on an IPv6 CPE

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols sjvn at vna1.com
Tue May 10 16:46:17 CEST 2011


On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 15:19 -0400, Ben Jencks wrote:
> My overall opinion is no filtering, for the reasons people have
> already given. PCs have to be individually secure anyway, and it makes
> the network more amenable to innovation. 

PCs? Individually secure!? Not in the world I live in. Like it or not,
users are lousy at security, and some kind of basic network-level
firewall services will be needed to keep end-user devices from causing
more mischief than they already do.

Steven
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