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Re: Address privacy (was: Re: RFC4941bis: consequences of many addresses for the network)

Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net> Sun, 26 January 2020 05:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: Address privacy (was: Re: RFC4941bis: consequences of many addresses for the network)
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On 1/25/2020 4:18 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:

> I'm not convinced that I get more privacy by using the privacy
> addresses and more than encoding my emails with rot13. 
>
> The industry has far more advanced ways to fingerprint users. The data
> done by https://amiunique.org/ folks as well as others make it clear
> that IP addresses aren't the means of tracking that I believe the
> concerns that introduced privacy addresses were attempting to solve.

Yes, there are many leaks. That not a reason to not plug our own leak,
i.e. the use of IP addresses as unique identifiers. As the web leaks are
progressively plugged by privacy oriented browsers or by fingerprint
blocking add-ons, the importance of address privacy increases.

-- Christian Huitema

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