dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers
Matt Addison
matt.addison at lists.evilgeni.us
Wed Jul 27 00:29:06 UTC 2011
On Jul 26, 2011, at 20:08, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> There's a subtle but significant difference between what cookies give you,
> which is "This is the same entity that visited our page at 7:48PM last
> Tuesday", and what easily trackable IP addresses give you, which is "This is an
> entity located at 1948 Durhof Street".
With how much identifying information user agents leak nowadays [1]
this is almost a moot point. If you can be uniquely identified through
the user agent- does it really matter that they can uniquely ID the
household as well based on prefix information?
~Matt
1: http://panopticlick.eff.org/
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