[GTALUG] Linux hardening question

James Knott james.knott at rogers.com
Fri Jun 30 11:18:58 EDT 2017


On 06/30/2017 10:53 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 09:34:06AM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote:
>> According to Vint Cerf, IPv4 was never intended to be released as a
>> public system.  It was intended to demonstrate the concepts, and the
>> "official" version would have a much larger address space.
> That's what happens when you make a decent beta and show it to the people
> in charge.  They instantly want to use it, without wanting to spend the
> time to make the final version properly. :)
>
Here's a link about what he said:
"It's enough to do an experiment," he said. "The problem is the
experiment never ended."
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2227543/software/software-why-ipv6-vint-cerf-keeps-blaming-himself.html


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