From: Jeroen Massar (jeroen_at_no.spam)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 05:37:25 PST
Tom Lohdan <ipv6-at-ihuq.com.au> wrote:
So that this issue nicely pops up in the future when people search for
Jim's huge problem:
(Sorry couldn't resist ;)
> At 10:35 PM 17/11/2001 -0600, Jim Fleming wrote:
> >You might want to study "The IPv6 Privacy Problem".
> >http://www.google.com/search?q=IPV6+Privacy+Problem
<SNIP>
> > Other people are
> >concerned that the MAC address can essentially describe the make and
model
> >of the equipment, so web-site operators could start treating people
different
> >depending on how much money they spent on their system, or when they
> >bought it.
>
> Irrelevant. A NIC can work under multiple OS's, and could have it
installed
> in a 386. The Website owner knows nothing but the type of NIC
> you have.
Or even better:
man ifconfig
hw class address
Set the hardware address of this interface, if the
device driver supports this operation. The keyword
must be followed by the name of the hardware class
and the printable ASCII equivalent of the hardware
address. Hardware classes currently supported
include ether (Ethernet), ax25 (AMPR AX.25), ARCnet
and netrom (AMPR NET/ROM).
Now you figure out if my workstation has a real MAC ending in 42 or that
I just faked it ;)
And what if you got a company with like 10.000 employees and thus around
10.000 NIC's,
just move them around every now and then and then ask Jim if he can find
you <grin>
> >Novice Internet users might also be freaked out when some web
> >pop-up says, "Hello, how do you like your new Compact Impressio,
purchased
> >in May at Better-Buy, is it performing as expected ?"....please call
> >976-555-1212
> >for information on the recall on that equipment. Naive users may say,
"Wow,
> >how do they know what I have ?....I better call...."....and may enter
a
> >long and winding road similar to....http://www.MajesticTheGame.com
>
> Scare tactic's, seen many times by people pushing a cause for monetary
reasons.
Actually I would find it all quite neat..... no more baby diaper adverts
but only the ads targetted at ME! :)
If one really wants to know many things about a person use google or any
other searching engine or pay somebody off or something...
Greets,
Jeroen
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