On May 17, 2011, at 10:30 13PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>
> On May 17, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
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>> --- [email protected] wrote:
>> From: Joel Jaeggli <[email protected]>
>> On May 17, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Scott Brim wrote:
>>> On May 17, 2011 6:26 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 17 May 2011 15:04:19 PDT, Scott Weeks said:
>>>>
>>>>> What about privacy concerns
>>>>
>>>> "Privacy is dead. Get used to it." -- Scott McNeely
>>>
>>> Forget that attitude, Valdis. Just because privacy is blown at one level
>>> doesn't mean you give it away at every other one. We establish the framework
>>> for recovering privacy and make progress step by step, wherever we can.
>>> Someday we'll get it all back under control.
>>
>> if you put something in the dns you do so because you want to discovered.
>> scoping the nameservers such that they only express certain certain resource
>> records to queriers in a particular scope is fairly straight forward.
>> --------------------------------------------------------
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>>
>> The article was not about DNS. It was about "Persistent Personal Names for
>> Globally Connected Mobile Devices" where "Users normally create personal
>> names by introducing devices locally, on a common WiFi network for example.
>> Once created, these names remain persistently bound to their targets as
>> devices move. Personal names are intended to supplement and not replace
>> global DNS names."
>
> you mean like mac addresses? those have a tendency to follow you around in
> ipv6...
>
This is why RFC 3041 (replaced by 4941) was written, 10+ years ago. The problem
is that it's not enabled by default on many (possibly all) platforms, so I
have to have
# cat /etc/sysctl.conf
net.inet6.ip6.use_tempaddr=1
set on my Mac.
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
