[51590] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Broadening the IPv6 discussion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Fri Aug 30 12:40:50 2002
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 18:40:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <002701c25026$d28ed2f0$534510ac@cyan>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> > > Maybe the p2p vendors should implement IPv6, it might also
> > > take a while until RIAA finds them again :-)
> > Then I hope they'll implement RFC 3041, otherwise the RIAA
> > will go on a massive MAC address hunt...
> Hmm a MAC... and then (sweet, dude) ?
> I still don't get it why that would be a problem, simply because:
> - one can change your IP by hand and/or automagically (RFC 3041 like you
> mentioned)
> - MAC's can be changed (ifconfig hwaddr... )
Yes, but rebooting each time you change the MAC address for your windows
box gets somewhat tiresome after a while...
> And then still.. they know that 'something/one' from a certain /48 did
> 'something'.
Ok, first of all: it was a joke. I guess I should have included a :-)
Second: that the record industry might think it's a good idea has little
bearing on it being actually a good idea. I have no trouble believing they
would subpoena ethernet card sales records from stores to find out MAC
addresses to go after people who trade MP3s if they thought there was a 1%
chance it would do their cause any good. And it might, since most PC users
don't know what a MAC address is, let alone how to change it.
> So what, if you pay at a store with your VISA or AMEX or simply your
> bankcard.
> That company holds at least your accountnumber, let's crossreference
> that.
Never heard of cash?
(BTW your post wout be easier to read if the lines were < 80 chars.)
> Same thing (IMHO ;) as the IP address thing, it pops up at several
> places and they
> can do many statistical stuff with it for behaviour research, buy styles
> etc.
Yes. I use a static address that is easily correlated with lots of
real-life info about me, and I'm not always happy about that.
> ipv6 [-p] gpu UseAnonymousAddresses [yes|no|always|Counter]
> that's how you turn that stupid feature off, it is annoying IMHO and
> quite useless as
Why is it stupid, annoying and useless?
Iljitsch van Beijnum
