[51520] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurtis Lindqvist)
Thu Aug 29 06:05:40 2002
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:01:33 +0200 (CEST)
From: Kurtis Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
To: Peter John Hill <peterjhill@cmu.edu>
Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <B573EC80-BA20-11D6-B5ED-000393802426@cmu.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> What is interesting is that people can identify a EUI-64 unicast
> address no matter where you are. For example, i use my laptop at work
> and at home (assuming I had an ipv6 connection at home). I could be
> identified as the same computer, without using cookies, since my base
> 64 address would be the same, despite the network prefix.
What I as external viewer could determine would that you where a computer
that moved. From the frequency I could probably tell that you where a
laptop. I would not tell me what would be home or work, and it would not
say who you actually where.
- kurtis -
