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Title : Current Hostname Practice Considered Harmful
Authors : Christian Huitema
Dave Thaler
Filename : draft-ietf-intarea-hostname-practice-00.txt
Pages : 9
Date : 2015-10-13
Abstract:
Giving a hostname to your computer and publishing it as you roam from
network to hot spot is the Internet equivalent of walking around with
a name tag affixed to your lapel. The practice can significantly
compromise your privacy, and should stop.
There are several possible remedies, such as fixing a variety of
protocols or avoiding disclosing a hostname at all. This document
studies another possible remedy, which is to replace the static
hostnames by frequently changing randomized values. This idea
obviously needs more work.
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