service and user-agent disclosure - please consider privacy

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:03:39AM -0500, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 01/11/2012 09:21 AM, Emanuel Rietveld wrote:
> > On 01/11/2012 12:43 PM, Richard wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:53:52PM +0100, nodata wrote:
> >>
> >>> Fonts are a bigger threat to privacy, see here:
> >>>   http://panopticlick.eff.org/
> > 
> > Maybe I am missing something, but isn't this only relevant if your IP is
> > not visible to the web server? Otherwise, you can trivially be tracked
> > by your IP address.
> 
>   You're probably missing something ... at least pre IP6 world ...
> 
>   IP6 makes you more easily identifiable of course because there is no
> NAT anymore and thus every machine is identifiable even if not routable.
> 
>   Odd as it is, IP6 reduces privacy - it was not designed with privacy
> in mind.

  http://ipv6int.net/systems/linux-ipv6.html#privacy

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