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Re:So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations by gsich on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @10:39AM (#16912928)
privacy is not the issue. Selling business plans is the real reason.
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Re:So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations by gmueckl on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @03:14PM (#16915664)
You won't believe the number of crazy people in Germany who believe that static IP addresses are the root of all evil because of all the magucal tracking and surveillance possibilities they famtasize about.
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Re:So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations by gsich on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @07:17AM (#16920450)
IPv6 would allow for both.
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Re:So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations by nsbq71 on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @09:02PM (#16917973)
The only reason I can still post here is that I don't have a static IP address. So yes, they are the root of all evil.
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