On Aug 19, 2010, at 5:30 AM, Joakim Aronius wrote: > * Hannes Frederic Sowa ([email protected]) wrote: >> >> But most people just don't care. My proposal is to have some kind of >> sane defaults for them e.g. changing their prefix every week or in the >> case of a reconnect. This would mitigate some of the many privacy >> concerns in the internet a little bit. Of course all the already known >> problems would still exist. And still people have to care about the >> technology to reach a higher level of anonymity. > > Ok. Lets assume that the ISP hands out new prefixes to the clients CPE each > week. The CPE then advertises these prefixes on the clients home network. For > clients accessing the internet this works fine (except perhaps a glitch > during the switchover). > > But what about the internal communication in the customer premises? How do > they connect to their NAS, media players, printers, TVs etc? Of course there > is UPnP, DLNA and different other kinds of magic but I imagine that most home > users actually configure IP addresses at some point. > You actually imagine wrong in most cases. Many do, but, not most.
Most use mDNS for such things these days, actually. > Constantly changing prefixes will ad another layer of complexity, things will > break, and customers will be upset. (and quite frankly I don't think that you > would gain that much privacy anyway) > I would agree. I think that customers that WANT privacy at the expense of having their prefix change often being able to request such service might be a good value-add service you could offer, but, I think the vast majority of customers would prefer prefix stability. I think that the privacy implications of a stable prefix are vastly over-stated in this thread. Owen
