For example, the IP Security protocol, which doesn't work well through NAT devices, will work fine with 6to4, proponents say.

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In parallel, define a security architecture and migration strategy that provides security through browsers, Secure Sockets Layer and passwords in the short run, and gets you started on PKI by deploying technologies such as IP Security virtual private networks and the Secure Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions e-mail standard.

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For their part, IP service providers say the security risks are overblown, but legitimate.

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The new security architecture needs to have higher-level constructs so that a policy can be expressed in terms of the who, what, where, when, and how of security as opposed to the IP address.

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IPv6 actually makes the issue of Internet security that much worse, because IP addresses are the true root of identity and we just added a staggering number of them more addresses than the number of grains of sand on the entire planet Earth.

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Or, from a security perspective, you could have an IP surveillance camera set up so that it sends a picture to your Twitter account whenever there is unusual activity.

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In a footnote, the brief points out that Jacob Appelbaum, a developer for the anonymity service Tor, is a computer security expert, and should be expected to know that his IP address is subject to being revealed government orders when he uses Twitter.

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Based on the character of the documents (and not IP addresses) we assessed that we recovered documents from the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) of India, the Embassy of India, Kabul, the Embassy of India, Moscow, the Consulate General of India, Dubai, and the High Commission of India in Abuja, Nigeria.

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This is a problem for the security community in general because NAT enables cyber attackers to hide behind shared IP addresses, preventing those tracking them from being able to pinpoint their identity.

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Using a large database of known suspicious or bad source IP addresses, even URLs, has made dramatic improvements to spam filters and web security gateways.

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