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RE: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header
From: "Network IPdog" <network.ipdog () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:16:39 -0800
Et al, There is one simple question that needs to be asked! Ammar Salih @ ammar.salih () auis edu iq Are you a terrorist? Ephesians 4:32 & Cheers!!! A password is like a... toothbrush ;^) Choose a good one, change it regularly and don't share it. -----Original Message----- From: John Adams [mailto:jna () retina net] Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 2:20 PM To: Ammar Salih Cc: nanog () nanog org list Subject: Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Your proposal doesn't even give people a way to encrypt their location data; By moving geodata to a portion of the protocol which is not covered by commonly used encryption methods (i.e. HTTPS, which is up a few layers in the stack) people can't be protected should this data be monitored by a malicious intermediary. Think: Syria, China, Iran, or any other government which will kill you for your words online. Application protocols sending GPS data under say, HTTPS protect the end user from revealing their location to anyone on their path, forcing an intermediary to look up the IP in a common geo database which will be mostly inaccurate in pinpointing users, and hopefully will save lives. Companies like Twitter, Facebook, and some parts of google are going HTTPS by default for this very reason. This proposal is dead, you don't have the sense to lie down.
Current thread:
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header, (continued)
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Tammy A. Wisdom (Nov 24)
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Michael Butler (Nov 24)
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Nick Hilliard (Nov 25)
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Kenneth McRae (Nov 24)
- RE: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Dave Edelman (Nov 25)
- RE: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Ammar Salih (Nov 25)
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header William Herrin (Nov 25)
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Eugen Leitl (Nov 25)
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Jimmy Hess (Nov 25)
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header John Adams (Nov 25)
- RE: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Network IPdog (Nov 25)
- RE: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Randy (Nov 25)
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Eugen Leitl (Nov 26)
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header William Herrin (Nov 25)
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Alex (Nov 25)
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Jimmy Hess (Nov 26)
- RE: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Mohacsi Janos (Nov 26)
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Carlos M. Martinez (Nov 26)
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Eugen Leitl (Nov 26)
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header William Herrin (Nov 26)
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Harald Koch (Nov 26)
- Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Eugen Leitl (Nov 26)