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Seems like IoT would have much more to offer with IPv6. Currently you buy a "internet enabled" schlage deadbolt for your front door and it connects to cloud to

by sliken 11y ago

Seems like IoT would have much more to offer with IPv6. Currently you buy a "internet enabled" schlage deadbolt for your front door and it connects to cloud to enable remote lock/unlock. If you could count on a visible IP address products/services could skip such things. Again it's a chicken and egg problem, nobody does anything cool assuming IPv6 because few have it. Few have it, because you can't do anything cool with it.

steckerbrett 11y ago
World accessible devices is a pretty scary concept. If you have your garage door controlled by an ESP8266 it would take a single host to denial of service attack it, maybe even just one server to denial of service attack every garage door in the united states.
- koffiezet 11y ago
  It's not because it's public addressable that it would be public accessible.