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What are the security and privacy implications for home users when an ISP simply switches them on?
by junto 11y ago
What are the security and privacy implications for home users when an ISP simply switches them on?
- 2bluesc 11y agoThe biggest that comes to mind is that with dual stack IPv6 all the people running through IPv4 anonymizing VPNs will be bypassed for sites that support IPv6. Oops. IPv6 has some minor privacy extensions too, but likely still allow you to be geolocated.
- X-Istence 11y agoThis is something the VPN providers need to fix, either by setting a default IPv6 route that doesn't go anywhere so happy eyeballs will follow IPv4 or by adding IPv6 to their proxies.
- X-Istence 11y agoDepends on the CPE, however as long as there is a default firewall, there would no real issues. The problem I've found is that too many CPE's allow IPv6 inbound without a firewall, so it exposes end clients directly to the internet. With IPv4 generally there is a default drop all firewall rule.