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Title : Current Hostname Practice Considered Harmful
Authors : Christian Huitema
Dave Thaler
Rolf Winter
Filename : draft-ietf-intarea-hostname-practice-02.txt
Pages : 10
Date : 2016-05-10
Abstract:
Giving a hostname to your computer and publishing it as you roam from
one network to another is the Internet equivalent of walking around
with a name tag affixed to your lapel. This current practice can
significantly compromise your privacy, and something should change in
order to mitigate these privacy threads.
There are several possible remedies, such as fixing a variety of
protocols or avoiding disclosing a hostname at all. This document
describes some of the protocols that reveal hostnames today and
sketches another possible remedy, which is to replace static
hostnames by frequently changing randomized values.
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