Out-Law.com reports on the UK’s lag in transitioning to IPv6, a new address system for the Internet, and consultancy business Interconnect Communications (ICom) findings that network security issues and privacy concerns will accompany its deployment. “A big concern with a number of mechanisms is the potential that they can be used to circumvent existing security measures … While it is correct to say that IPv4 does not offer the same privacy extensions as IPv6, the way that IPv4 was treated as a scarce resource provided inbuilt privacy protection because it was unlikely that a single IPv4 address would always identify the same user,” ICom has said.
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