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Right, and now your isp knows how many devices you have, what endpoints each of them connect to and at what time. This is what kills me with v6. Privacy is alre
by crmrc114 4y ago
Right, and now your isp knows how many devices you have, what endpoints each of them connect to and at what time. This is what kills me with v6. Privacy is already a large enough issue, I have no interest in letting my ISP "see" my internal network and egress traffic flows from each device.
- sliken 4y agoNo, they don't, sure in a given period of time they know how many unique IPv6 addresses are in use. But they can't tell how many devices that is. I'd much rather have 2^68 IPs that I can sprinkle over as many devices as I want than a single IPv4 that makes p2p hard, makes services hard, and requires the use of either NAT or tons of port forwarding.
- jjav 4y ago> Right, and now your isp knows how many devices you have It sounds crazy today, but this is how it used to be with IPv4 back in the day. For instance at my first job, every employee's computer (Sun SPARCstations) and every server in the building was directly on the internet with a routable IP address. No firewalls in sight, no NAT. sendmail ran on every box, so incoming email was handled directly by your own workstation, from anywhere in the internet. So my email address was name@myhostname.company.com (we did have aliases and forwarding so name@company.com also worked). I ran FTP server and mailing lists and (slightly later) web sites from my workstation. This was peak decentralized internet and a wonderful time.