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WindowsLies / BlockWindows

Stop Windows 10 Nagging and Spying. Works with Win7-10
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IPv6 addresses? #23

Open rmenessec opened 8 years ago

rmenessec commented 8 years ago

Thanks so much for working on this!

Please take IPv6 into account, and provide IPv6 localhost resolution ( ::1/128 ):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Special_addresses

OdinGitDat commented 8 years ago

IPv6 has known privacy issues. https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-15/dc15-presentations/Lindqvist/Whitepaper/dc-15-lindqvist-WP.pdf You should disable IPv6 in the first place if you want to be sure. network center > adapter settings > (right click) properties on the current wifi or ethernet adapter > uncheck IPv6

rmenessec commented 8 years ago

@OdinGitDat - Simply disabling IPv6 is not a valid option. It will eventually replace IPv4 and it is already in relatively widespread use. The solution to the v6 privacy issues you linked is to disable v6's auto-configuration mechanism and use DHCPv6 instead - which is how it's normally deployed and used if dynamic rather than static addresses are needed.

The v6 'privacy extensions' are widely understood to be of little or no value. Whether or not they are used, the privacy model of IPv6 is the same as v4; there isn't any inherent privacy in either protocol.

OdinGitDat commented 8 years ago

@rmenessec So as long as I have my router configured to obtain dynamic ip adresses it shouldnt post a bigger threat than v4? thanks, thats good to know.