[GTALUG] pulling the plug on home phone

James Knott james.knott at rogers.com
Thu Jun 2 10:22:15 EDT 2016


On 06/02/2016 10:11 AM, Dave Cramer wrote:
> The spammers and people trying to break in to machines are going to
> have to up their game. 
> The number of IP addresses has increased exponentially.

A lot more than exponentially.  Most people only have one address.  1 to
any power is still just 1.

> Of course once the number of rooted machines increases exponentially
> the virus traffic alone will choke the net

Whether behind NAT or not, a rooted machine is a rooted machine.  For
example, I have 3 computers at home.  Having IPv6 doesn't change that.




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