Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns

Re:Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns by bensummers on Monday April 11, 2011 @06:47AM (#2432128)

I'm sure we can shame Microsoft and Apple into using random numbers instead of MAC addresses.

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Re:Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns by sqrt2 on Monday April 11, 2011 @07:10AM (#2432166)

It's quite silly that the author doesn't know this, but the feature he requests exists already and has existed for 10 years -- Privacy Extesions for SLAAC in IPv6 (RFC3041). It's even enabled by default on Windows.

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Re:Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns by pieter on Monday April 11, 2011 @07:26AM (#2432192)

You're right, and I heard it's also enabled by default on OS X Lion. It's already enabled by default in the newer iOS builds.

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Re:Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns by bensummers on Monday April 11, 2011 @07:29AM (#2432199)

Got link for the "enabled by default in Windows" bit? Which versions does this apply to? I'd like to add that correction to the article.

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Re:Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns by sqrt2 on Monday April 11, 2011 @08:12AM (#2432281)

I've seen it on Vista, 7 and on XP once IPv6 is enabled. Concerning sources, http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-GB?query=rfc%2... turns up a few articles.

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Re:Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns by HerraBRE on Monday April 11, 2011 @06:48AM (#2432130)

I'd sign that petition. :-)

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