[138104] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Mon Feb 28 09:10:16 2011
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:10:06 +0000
In-Reply-To: <D62F65BB-90A5-4D92-AD97-98E36A6A173B@hopcount.ca>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 28, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Joe Abley wrote:
> By embedding the MAC into the layer-3 address, the concern is that the in=
formation becomes accessible Internet-wide.
Given the the toxicity of hotel networks alone, my guess is that it already=
is pretty much available Internet-wide, at least to those who stand to ill=
icitly profit by it the most.
;>
And let's not get started on IMEIs, ESNs, and MEIDs, heh.
SMTP headers and various IM client sessions are also quite revealing, for t=
hat matter - and in near- or real-time, in many cases.
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