dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers

Wed Jul 27 01:25:30 UTC 2011

-------- matt.addison at lists.evilgeni.us wrote: ---------------------
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?

1: http://panopticlick.eff.org/
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All you need to do with what that site says is write a sh script that deletes and then creates the same user.  Stick it in a crontab.  Your browser ID changes each time.  In addition to browser cookies, be sure to manage your flash cookies... 

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

So, force the DHCP server to give you new addresses (in IPv4; don't know about IPv6, yet), manage your cookies, change your browser IDs regularly.  What did I miss?  ;-)

scott
(who's still bristling from the last discussion about this where Valdis kept saying "Privacy is dead.  Get used to it."  I don't want to roll over and just take it... >;-) )