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New UEFI vulnerabilities send firmware devs industry wide scrambling (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ideally, using just IP6 would be simpler, as every device gets a global address. Then you don't need to mess with NAT, port forwarding and all that bullshit. Every device having multiple addresses just complicates things.