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oppressive regimes will assign people static IPv4 addresses tied with their legal identities.
by pilif 8y ago
oppressive regimes will assign people static IPv4 addresses tied with their legal identities.
- bcaa7f3a8bbc 8y agoIf IPv4 pools and carrier-grade IPv4 NATs spreads all over the network, a user's identity is revealed to the oppressive regimes in primarily two ways: a) IP pool logging, requires a known IP address and time. b) NAT logging, requires a known IP address, outgoing port number, and time. It means the cost of tracking users is moderate to ISPs and authorities, also, for a random observer without access to internal records, a IPv4 user is effectively pseudonymous to the city-level until enough information is revealed. But if the oppressive regimes really assign assign people static IPv6 prefixes tied with their legal identities intentionally, without any type of privacy extension, it would mean after I use my network connection for a while... __everyone on the Internet, not just ISPs, can track my activity, possibility tied with my legal identity.__ I'm well aware of the existence of mass surveillance on IPv4, and I'm not advocating IPv4 for a false sense of security, I'm all for IPv6. But this is a true issue for consideration. Using a VPN, or Tor for day-to-day web browsing is the only practical solution to this problem I can think of... On the other hand, IPv6 will bring end-to-end communications back to the Internet and revive P2P. To that day, perhaps a P2P-based, full mesh, optionally anonymous network will become practical. To this extent, IPv6 does more good than harm.
- supertrope 8y agoBelgium limited ISP side NAT to 16:1 for law enforcement/national security log retention reasons.