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Re:IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world by krupan on Friday January 02, 2026 @04:05PM (#46469331)
It's a big privacy problem too. Basing your IP address on your Mac address doesn't help in that regard either. Times have changed a lot since IPv6 was invented.
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Re:IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world by sgjohnson on Friday January 02, 2026 @04:47PM (#46469795)
> Basing your IP address on your Mac address doesn't help in that regard either.

This hasn’t been the case for 20 years. Privacy Extensions solved that, and every SLAAC implementation supports them.

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