Honest question, why are we not all just on IPV6 now? It seems like at this point almost all the underlying hardware and software should support it? It seems like the only argument for sticking with IPv4 is NAT, but I can't think of a technical reason we couldn't do NAT with IPv6?
> but I can't think of a technical reason we couldn't do NAT with IPv6
Correct, NAT works fine with IPv6, there just aren't many reasons to use it.
One of the main uses for IPv4 NAT is extending a network without the operator's permission. On IPv6 that can usually be accomplished with ND Proxy.
Tbf, front-loading washing machines can suck in socks. Have had to pull one out of the pump at the bottom. Best part is your clothes are trapped inside with a half load of water. Or you can chance it and hope it can drain a bit at a time over a dozen drain attempts with burning it out. I suspect another small article of clothing led to a clog in the line (apartment building). Nothing like a whole washing machine load…
The underlying crime was wire fraud, and it happened to be about acquiring IP addresses. He wasn’t prosecuted because he got too many, but for how he got them.
Wire fraud, wire fraud, it's nearly always wire fraud. Elizabeth Holmes, George Santos, Charlie Javice, all the people who got fake Covid funds - wire fraud, wire fraud, wire fraud. In this day and age if you're committing fraud it's pretty hard for it not to be wire fraud given how everything is transmitted digitally. And penalties for wire fraud are extremely steep (up 20 years for each charge), and it automaticall…
If he had used e.g. the USPS mail service, would it then have been mail fraud instead? Similar sentencing?
"in a 2020 interview with KrebsOnSecurity, Golestan claimed that Micfo was at one point responsible for brokering roughly 40 percent of the IP addresses used by the world’s largest VPN providers. Throughout that conversation, Golestan maintained his innocence, even as he explained that the creation of the phony companies was necessary to prevent entities like Spamhaus from interfering with his business going forward.…
It is reasonable to not want your name plastered on a website run by vigilante cyber police who we have given quasi-law enforcement powers and the ability to de facto shut down ISPs (and in one case a ccTLD). It's even more reasonable when you realize they are incorporated in Andorra - good luck suing them if they get something wrong!
I've seen Microsoft, Yahoo and Google all blackhole IP blocks wrongly because they were mixed up with IPs operated by spammers but I've never seen Spamhaus do this, in fact they went absolutely out of their way (without any requests from us) to ensure that our lonely IP on a Toronto ISP that did a lot of shady stuff was excepted.
Case History: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15573090/united-states-... The delays were partially due to COVID then later he was able to get it caught up with SCOTUS review of criteria for denaturalization. But geez his backstory is wild. Iranian born, escaped with parents to Dubai. Started his business in his bedroom at 16. Bought quite a rock for his sweetie back in 2012 ( https://youtu.be/FhPiC7zC7wA ). She…
I confess, I had to watch a few minutes. It's exactly as cringe as I imagined.
All the more so because law enforcement agents would require cause (warrant? subpoena? IANAL) to obtain the records, right?
> law enforcement agents would require cause (warrant? subpoena? IANAL) to obtain the records, right? No. If I took you to arbitration and think you acted illegally, I can send the case documents to law enforcement. Most people don't do this, because it's a hassle. But if you pissed me off or were morally offensive, hell yes I'm doing it. After that, yes, they need to execute searches to follow up on the information.
> If I took you to arbitration and think you acted illegally, I can send the case documents to law enforcement.
Only if the terms of arbitration allow you to share said documents.
Actually, it is, try the test for yourself in your home over a 30 day period. Drop IPv6 at the router and in your main PC and devices by disabling it. At the end of that 30 days, it will become clear that Ad companies were using IPv6 to track people in the household when Ads for things completely unrelated to their interests and related to the other members of the household start showing on each others PC's and devic…
That's impossible if the devices have privacy extensions enabled, which is the default on all major OSes. My house has a /64 IPv6 prefix. Inside that, the computer I'm writing this on has 8 temporary IPv6 addresses it's using at this moment. An ad company can no more track my individual computer inside my house than it could your computer inside yours. The only difference is that your network is a black box behind public IP 1.2.3.4, and mine is a black box behind public prefix abcd:ef01:2345:6789::/64. (Well, I use IPv4, too, but for the sake of this discussion...)