IE, the traffic isn't encryted. The software is years out of date. It can't be updated.

Etc

Only way to be safe is not to use the IOT, which will become increasingly difficult unto the point at which you physically cannot

Same slippery slope as work/transactions

Not as many and 95% of them are natted so things can't route to them which vastly reduces their risk level

IoT security will improve

It already is

If we moved to the full ipv6 world that's when the shit really hits the fan

Matter of time before they make smartmeters mandatory for all new homes, and all new tenants

Ditto with smartcars

If we moved to IPv6, little would change

Except data would flow a little faster

Due to new routing protocols in IPv6

That's it.

Depends, isps might just start giving you real ipv6 ips per device which aren't natting

ISPs only give you one IP address.

Their routers have natting built-in

The ones they provide to you

With ipv6 they could opt not to, there are lots of ips, that was the whole point

They *could*, but won't

Just becuase they don't need to be effecient, doesn't mean they won't be

You can already request multiple external ips with some providers

At a cost, yes

5g could make the whole ISP providing your router an IP address thing irrelevent

No it wont

5G connects to the country networking infrastructure like every other networked device.

Which is connected to the world

Thus must run on the same standards and principles as the rest of the planet

Correct, but does not operate via your home router

It operates on cell towers

Which act as routers

And through Chinese contracts if I'm not mistaken

Through Chinese made hardware in some places

😉

Exactly, so if it's operating via a cell tower it's not operating via your home router

Cell towers and routers run on the same princples fundamentally

And act the same in practice

"5g could make the whole ISP providing your router an IP address thing irrelevent"

Ah sorry, I go on tangents

Not really, since there's limited bandwidths on each cell towers

You would need more towers in a smaller area, say if everyone was using 5G rather than a wired connection, or wifi