[LINK] smartphone privacy problems

[Roger Clarke]

At 10:46 +1100 30/1/11, Paul Brooks wrote:
>One of the promises of IPv6 is that every device can have an IPv6 
>address which is
>static - with no requirement to change over time, so that it can be 
>advertised and
>used by other devices to establish inbound connections to - 
>including while mobile.
>Widespread use of these extensions will break that model, and relegate us to
>client-server modes of operating forever.

As I read your post, Paul, you're saying that IETF engineers have 
decided that privacy doesn't matter, and that unique identification 
of the device is intrinsic to any IPv6 service?

If so, aren't anonymity and pseudonymity are banned by IETF decree?

Leaving aside the small question of privacy for the moment, what do 
the many organisations that depend on obfuscation in order to protect 
information and human life think of the design of IPv6?

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