[Nottingham] Is it theft to be live alive? (Was: Media Centre Linux distro?)

[Martin]

On 10/05/12 08:19, Alex Holt wrote:
> On 10/05/2012 07:14, James Moore wrote:
>>> And what happens when IPv6 is more widely used that uniquely identifies
>>> a particular personal device?
>>
>> Dumb question of course; when it takes over IPv4 as the dominant 
>> protocol then any hint of anonymity is gone. IPv4 will die as will any 
>> devices that can't upgrade.
> 
> That's not typically true. The usual case is that RFC 4941 Privacy
> Extension addresses are turned on, and each computer generates a new
> ephemeral address every 24 hours to use for outgoing connections. Since
> the address is random there's no information in it to identify the
> specific computer.
> 
> (Given the list I'm posting this to, I should mention the non-typical
> case: privacy extensions are enabled by default on Windows but not on
> Linux. Enable them by setting net.ipv6.conf.<interface>.use_tempaddr=2)

That's an interesting aside. Do you mind if I post that little nugget up
on the NLUG website?

Cheers,
Martin

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