IPv6-Based Internet Empowering Super IoT, 5G and Blockchain while Cybersecurity is Looming

摘要

The recent Mckinsey report on IoT projects 3 to 11 trillion dollars of IoT business by 2025. IoT is just the Internet sneaking everywhere. The current deployment of IoT is run over NAT converted logically to lnterNAT of Things. The Hackers cannot wait to go after small fish to take down networks for money. 4G deployed over NAT except top notch ISPs like T-Mobilc in the US using IPv6 and serving v4 customers with v4 as a service, or due to simply a lack of v4 address space such as in India with Reliance Jio deploying 4G with IPv6 and capturing 250 million 4G users, basically demonstrating a great case of a greenfield scenario leapfrogging developing countries into use of IPv6 without even knowing it. Blockchain is hailed to save the planet with its security. Again, the usual hype hits the road as blockchain is based on IPv4/NAT and the July 2018 hack of the keys got Bitcoin stumbling from 20 thousand dollars to 5 thousand dollars. However, people are not aware of these issues and keep speculating with Bitcoin, and some have even lost their keys, as is the case for one who lost 75 million dollars. This digital coin is not made for a layman. This talk will restore some sanity by looking at the historical developments of these technologies and learn from past mistakes and mind-boggling hypes.