IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

Kurtis Lindqvist kurtis at kurtis.pp.se
Thu Aug 29 10:01:33 UTC 2002



> What is interesting is that people can identify a EUI-64 unicast
> address no matter where you are. For example, i use my laptop at work
> and at home (assuming I had an ipv6 connection at home). I could be
> identified as the same computer, without using cookies, since my base
> 64 address would be the same, despite the network prefix.


What I as external viewer could determine would that you where a computer
that moved. From the frequency I could probably tell that you where a
laptop. I would not tell me what would be home or work, and it would not
say who you actually where.

- kurtis -




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