On Jul 26, 2011, at 5:06 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:02:14 PDT, Leo Vegoda said: >> Do German web sites not track users with cookies, then? > > There's a subtle but significant difference between what cookies give you, > which is "This is the same entity that visited our page at 7:48PM last > Tuesday", and what easily trackable IP addresses give you, which is "This is > an > entity located at 1948 Durhof Street". > > Yes, it's often possible to to map between one and the other - but anonymous > and pseudonymous are two different things. It's quite reasonable for somebody > to want to be one but not the other - though it can be difficult in practice. > It's even quite reasonable for somebody to wish to be positively identified, > but their location not easily determined - for instance, I'm posting this as > myself, but I may wish where I'm posting *from* to remain a secret (for > instance, if my location reveals I'm not at home and thus burgling my > residence > is more feasible). >
Yes, but, your network prefix will generally reveal that to roughly the same extent whether it is static or dynamic. Owen
