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Re: ITU-T Dubai Meeting

2012-08-08 01:47:27
Noel Chiappa wrote:

    > you want some level of privacy protection and therefore a fully dynamic
    > temporary DHCP-assigned IPv6 address

This turns out to be a chimera. Such addresses don't really provide any real
privacy - it turns out to be easy to track people through their access
patterns, etc.

It _can_ be used in in a privacy-protecting fashion,
when used properly (potentially with other than a web browser).

If one is using one single web browser for *everything*; with
cookies, active content, flash and all other crap enabled,
then an occasional change in the outside address of your
DSL router is not going to make much of a difference, of course.

The map that tools/plugins like these draw after a few mouseclicks
in a fully-featured FireFox are impressive (or depressing, depending
on how you feel about privacy):

   http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/
   http://www.ghostery.com/


-Martin

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