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Profile: Sebastian Marshall. Internet ID 353-808-A331. Known aliases: "lionhearted". Primary contact info: sebastian@sebastianmarshall.com Political positions:

Profile: Sebastian Marshall. Internet ID 353-808-A331. Known aliases: "lionhearted". Primary contact info: sebastian@sebastianmarshall.com Political positions: A believer in liberty, pro-international travel and open borders, tends towards mild hostility towards regulation. Generally law-abiding. Friendliness to American Interests Rating (FAIR): 72/100

narrator 16y ago
That 353-808-A331 is the lower 64 bits of your ipv6 address anytime you do anything online. You won't have to login anywhere! If you need to do something important you'll just sign with your private key and the gov will graciously provide the public key keyserver. I've been trying to tell that to everybody for years. Your Fair Score is actually your TerrorScore. Would you like to sort social media profiles by TerrorScore? They will undoubtedly use Google PageRank like Eigenvectors to calculate it based on who you're linked to and your ipv6 traffic profile. I hate to be an Ipv6 cynic but after all, Ipv4 NAT is the best thing that ever happened to online anonymity.
- wmf 16y ago
  IPv4 NAT is the best thing that ever happened to online anonymity. There's exactly one person behind my NAT; how many are behind yours?
  - bad_user 16y ago
    Yes, but how many people know that?
  - pyre 16y ago
    There were several papers over the past few years about using traffic analysis to figure out what's going on behind a NAT. I'm sure that the US government could manage to do this with all of the ISP-level snooping gear.
- drdaeman 16y ago
  NAT just adds a port number to your identity. And port number changes more frequently. Anyway, if you're talking about governments (so ISPs are required to cooperate, by law), 3-tuple (IP, port, timestamp) is enough to identify you. Even more traditional (IP, timestamp) pair is enough for low-to-medium-trafficked ISPs or sites.

narrator 16y ago

That 353-808-A331 is the lower 64 bits of your ipv6 address anytime you do anything online. You won't have to login anywhere! If you need to do something important you'll just sign with your private key and the gov will graciously provide the public key keyserver. I've been trying to tell that to everybody for years. Your Fair Score is actually your TerrorScore. Would you like to sort social media profiles by TerrorScore? They will undoubtedly use Google PageRank like Eigenvectors to calculate it based on who you're linked to and your ipv6 traffic profile. I hate to be an Ipv6 cynic but after all, Ipv4 NAT is the best thing that ever happened to online anonymity.

wmf 16y ago
IPv4 NAT is the best thing that ever happened to online anonymity. There's exactly one person behind my NAT; how many are behind yours?
- bad_user 16y ago
  Yes, but how many people know that?
- pyre 16y ago
  There were several papers over the past few years about using traffic analysis to figure out what's going on behind a NAT. I'm sure that the US government could manage to do this with all of the ISP-level snooping gear.
drdaeman 16y ago
NAT just adds a port number to your identity. And port number changes more frequently. Anyway, if you're talking about governments (so ISPs are required to cooperate, by law), 3-tuple (IP, port, timestamp) is enough to identify you. Even more traditional (IP, timestamp) pair is enough for low-to-medium-trafficked ISPs or sites.