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Mar 30, 2021

"[Disable IPv6]. IPv6 is better than IPv4, but you probably aren’t getting much out of it – because neither is anyone else. Hackers get something from it though – because they use it to send malicious traffic." What is it?

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LiveOverflow

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Mar 30, 2021

The 38% who say "useful recommendation", could you educate me please?🧸

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From the kernel security perspective: disabling IPv6 makes sense to reduce attack surface. IPv6 code is complicated, and there are many memory corruption bugs lurking in there. Same can be said about any other kernel subsystem though :)

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