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Re:Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6 by nutjob2 on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @10:15PM (#7671207)
That's entirely misleading.

The MAC address is used if you autoconfigure IPv6, it's not required. Also you can enable privacy by requesting your host to generate a random host identifier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Privacy

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Re:Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6 by stephen_g on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @12:02AM (#7671541)
I believe pretty much every single IP stack implementation uses privacy extensions by default now.
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Re:Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6 by justincormack on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @05:03AM (#7672248)
Actually I don't think that is true yet. FreeBSD does not by default for example.
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Re:Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6 by politician on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @11:55PM (#7671525)
It's not entirely misleading if you can imagine a certain government requiring registration of devices before allowing access to networks like the Internet.
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Re:Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6 by kiallmacinnes on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @05:25AM (#7672329)
I'm not sure I see how IPv6 would really make that any easier? Privicy extensions or not...

Forging a MAC address is trivial.. If that's all you use to enforce the registration, it will be trivial to bypass!

And - if government wants to do this.. There are easier ways.

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