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Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal

  • From: Scott Francis
  • Date: Thu Jan 24 23:24:59 2008
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On Jan 24, 2008 6:10 AM, Scott McGrath <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> We have a similar system based around Cisco's CNR which is a popular
> DHCP/DNS system used by large ISP's and other large organization and it
> is the IP+Timestamp coupled with the owner to MAC relationship which
> allows unique  identification of a user
[snip]

Let's not confuse identifying a person with identifying a particular
network interface. The disparity between the two may vary widely with
NAT, wifi, shared machines, etc.
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