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Answering any packet request from your end is enough to uniquely identify you. How do you propose TCP/IP would work without unique addresses?

• dleslie 6y ago
  From my original comment: > This is precisely the role that privacy-protecting legislation should be undertaking.
  • NavinF 6y ago
    Legislation will not solve the technical problem that the guy you're replying to brought up. Are they gonna write distributed communication protocols into law now?
    • dleslie 6y ago
      They can write private data sharing restriction legislation.
• smolder 6y ago
  In many cases yes, but broadly, IP address is not a basis for determining an individual. It's difficult to know it's not some other NAT'd user or dynamically assigned.
  • ehsankia 6y ago
    And why is the same not true for FLoC? How come when it comes to FLoC, the bare minimum amount of information is magically enough to identify you, but when it comes to IP, you just shrug it away as it being too difficult?
    • smolder 6y ago
      Personally, I didn't make any claim about FLoC magically identifying people. It does help to identify people, though. IP address you can't do without, FLoC would be additional information beyond that, so it helps identify people.