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You make a case why IPv6 is good for traceability of users. On the other hand, IPv4 and NAT are a boon to privacy. We'd be exquisitely trackable if NAT didn't
by computator 13y ago
You make a case why IPv6 is good for traceability of users.
On the other hand, IPv4 and NAT are a boon to privacy. We'd be exquisitely trackable if NAT didn't exist and every single device had a unique, unchangeable, life-long IP address. That's more-or-less how IP addresses were supposed to behave and IPv6 brings that back.
We need to be thankful for NAT for the privacy it brought by accident.
- warp 13y agoIPv6 only brings that back if you want it too. By default Windows, OS X and iOS have privacy extensions enabled which will generate random IPv6 addresses which change every few minutes, which makes tracking a device more or less as difficult as with NATted IPv4.
- gonzo 13y agoNAT is not a privacy mechanism. For IP addresses to be lifelong (and therefore portable) the routing mechanism would need to change. Now you have two problems.