It might be harder for us to snoop on you, oh noes!
U.S. and Canadian law enforcement agencies are warning that a historic switch to the next-generation Internet protocol called IPv6 may imperil investigations by making it more difficult to trace who's using which electronic address.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-574...s-from-police/
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Harder to track IF you use it correctly... not so much if you don't. Same as IPv4, really. The advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
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Guess we'll have to stick with IPV4. We can't disappoint lawmakers and law enforcement now.
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it seems to me that if your a good terrorist you would be using a encrypted laptop and send all your email
at a free wifi hotspot how is the goberment going to track that down?
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Meanwhile, whence the changeover to IPv6 finally happens it will usher in a lot of new things. For example I read that instead of masquerading behind a NAT firewall (or two such firewalls as in my case I am on a subnet) with IPv6 each device on the network can have its own address through which it is directly accessible. At least that is what I read somewhere. Makes a lot of things easier and more straight forward but I can also envision some potential security issues. Masquerading behind a NAT firewall does give an added layer of protection.
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Much ado about nothing.
The cops will upgrade their equipment in no short order. Probably already have, since IPv6 has been slowly rolling out behind the scenes for quite awhile.
It's only "more difficult" because there are going to be more number combinations available. But basic tracing? C'mon.
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