[143051] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Addison)
Tue Jul 26 20:30:01 2011
From: Matt Addison <matt.addison@lists.evilgeni.us>
In-Reply-To: <4050.1311725203@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:29:06 -0400
To: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Daniel Roesen <dr@cluenet.de>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 26, 2011, at 20:08, Valdis.Kletnieks@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/
