Re: service and user-agent disclosure - please consider privacy

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On 01/11/2012 09:21 AM, Emanuel Rietveld wrote:
> On 01/11/2012 12:43 PM, Richard wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:53:52PM +0100, nodata wrote:
>>
>>> Fonts are a bigger threat to privacy, see here:
>>>   http://panopticlick.eff.org/
> 
> Maybe I am missing something, but isn't this only relevant if your IP is
> not visible to the web server? Otherwise, you can trivially be tracked
> by your IP address.

  You're probably missing something ... at least pre IP6 world ...

  IP6 makes you more easily identifiable of course because there is no
NAT anymore and thus every machine is identifiable even if not routable.

  Odd as it is, IP6 reduces privacy - it was not designed with privacy
in mind.

 this scheme identifies you whether or not your IP changes and whether
or not there are multiple users behind same IP (imagine a household with
4 users, or a corporation with 5,000 users behind same IP) where NAT is
being used.

  In any case it allows them to identify you - even if you're on a
laptop changing IP's all the time ...
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