Re: dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers

[Matt Addison <matt.addison () lists evilgeni us>]

On Jul 26, 2011, at 20:08, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> 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".

With how much identifying information user agents leak nowadays [1]
this is almost a moot point. If you can be uniquely identified through
the user agent- does it really matter that they can uniquely ID the
household as well based on prefix information?

~Matt

1: http://panopticlick.eff.org/