27 Aug
2002
27 Aug
'02
5:33 p.m.
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Kurtis Lindqvist wrote:
<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?
The difference is that someone using a dynamic IP address is still recognizable by the lower 64 bits of their dynamic address because this part is always the same. (But cookies do the same thing.)
You can tell as much (more or less) with a port scan to a IPv4 address...
How can I recognize someone by doing a portscan?