[colug-432] IPv6

[Scott Merrill]

In that instance, you can use an anonymizing proxy / VPN. There are many
commercial services that offer this now, including many that operate
exclusively outside of the jurisdiction of US law.

TorrentFreak had a good comparison recently:
http://torrentfreak.com/vpn-services-that-take-your-anonymity-seriously-2013-edition-130302/
On Dec 1, 2013 9:58 PM, "Rick Hornsby" <richardjhornsby at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> > On Nov 22, 2013, at 14:29, R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com> wrote:
> >
> > There have been some mention of privacy concerns as to
> > assignments within ipv6 /64 blocks in Europe, but I don't
> > really see it as exposing any new PII not otherwise available
> > through passive traffic pattern analysis
>
> Right now we can block (and delete) browser cookies to stop being tracked
> across the web sites we visit.  I've noticed recently a significant uptick
> in specific banner ads on unrelated sites (ie news) for specific products
> I've browsed at a shopping site like B&H.  This is troubling, and while I
> deleted my entire cookie cache when I realized it, I'm tempted to institute
> a per month full cookie delete.
>
> We can't reliably be tracked (or track our own customers, should we wish
> to) over time by our IPv4 address both because of NATs, and because of
> DHCP.  I'm not sure I've heard this yet in this discussion thread, but I
> have this distinct impression that an IPv6 address is more or less static,
> because it is based on the hardware address of the NIC?  If so, that would
> negate any efforts to delete tracking cookies.
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