[51441] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurtis Lindqvist)
Tue Aug 27 17:14:21 2002
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:10:11 +0200 (CEST)
From: Kurtis Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
To: Joe Baptista <baptista@dot-god.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0208271041400.8174-100000@dot-god.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> However IPv6 has many privacy issues. IPv6 address space uses an ID
> (indentifier) derived from your hardware or phone. "That allows your
> packets to be traced back to your PC or cell-phone" said <censored>.
> <censored> fears abuse as a hardware ID wired into the ipv6 protocol can
> be used to determine the manufacturer, make and model number, and value
> of the hardware equipment being used by the end user.
...uhm, and? What is the real difference with a IPv4 address and privacy?
You can tell as much (more or less) with a port scan to a IPv4
address...and someone will always track the "ID" (I guess that is what I
call IP address).
If we are talking about the EUI64, that will disclose the vendor but
hardly the make and model number....
- kurtis -
