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IPv6 was designed long before surveillance capitalism was a concern and before security in general was as much of a concern as it is today. Addresses don't hav
by api 8y ago
IPv6 was designed long before surveillance capitalism was a concern and before security in general was as much of a concern as it is today.
Addresses don't have to be assigned that way. There are other ways of assigning addresses including privacy addresses and DHCPv6. The address space is so big that just generating a random address, while not RFC, is "okay" on all but huge networks if you're working in a /64.