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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] 6 points 11 months ago

Because there's no such thing as private address spaces in IPv6.

If your ISP is IPv6 only, then you need to enable IPv6 for your local network too, which means that every device on your network gets an IPv6 address.

You can still have a private IPv4 as well, but if your remove the IPv6 support, then you lose access too the Internet.