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----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Baptista" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 09:41 Subject: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic > > > Hi: > > I'm doing an article on IPv6 and am looking for comments - here is a > portion on IPv6 which relates to the privacy issue ... any comments, > crtics or interviews welcomed. > > -- snip > As you know IPv6 is a suite of protocols for the network layer of the > Internet which uses IPv4 gateways. It's purpose is to expand address > space. At this time IPv6 comes prepackaged with all popular operating > systems. This includes all flavours of unix , windows and Mac OS. Windows? I don't think so, not yet anyways > > IPv6 is designed to solve many of the problems of the current version of > IPv4 with regard to address depletion. The goal is to use IPv6 to expand > the capabilities of the Internet to enable a variety of valuable > peer-to-peer and mobile applications. According to many industry pundits > it is the future of networking. > > However IPv6 has many privacy issues. IPv6 address space uses an ID > (indentifier) derived from your hardware or phone. Hmm - if you mean that there will now be enough addresses to assign each device its own IP6 Address - then yah. Other than that, how is it "derived" from the hardware. > Ipv6 empowers the business community by providing a means of identifying > and tracking users. Under Ipv6 users can be tracked and income > demographics determined through hardware identification. > > Many members of the networking community have addressed concerns that the > technology could result in potential abuse and <censored> warns users to > think twice before they buy themselves a used Lap-Top computer and inherit > all the prior surfing history of the previous user? > Hmm - again, I would be upset if I wasn't able to CHANGE the IP6 addy because this would be true.
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