On 8/19/10 5:30 AM, Joakim Aronius wrote: > * Hannes Frederic Sowa (han...@mailcolloid.de) wrote: >> >> But most people just don't care. My proposal is to have some kind of >> sane defaults for them e.g. changing their prefix every week or in the >> case of a reconnect. This would mitigate some of the many privacy >> concerns in the internet a little bit. Of course all the already known >> problems would still exist. And still people have to care about the >> technology to reach a higher level of anonymity. > > Ok. Lets assume that the ISP hands out new prefixes to the clients CPE each > week. The CPE then advertises these prefixes on the clients home network. For > clients accessing the internet this works fine (except perhaps a glitch > during the switchover). > > But what about the internal communication in the customer premises? How do > they connect to their NAS, media players, printers, TVs etc? Of course there > is UPnP, DLNA and different other kinds of magic but I imagine that most home > users actually configure IP addresses at some point.
manual configuration of ip address name mappings seems like a rather low priority for the average home user... I don't expect that will be a big activity in the future either, more devices means less manual intervention not more. > Constantly changing prefixes will ad another layer of complexity, things will > break, and customers will be upset. (and quite frankly I don't think that you > would gain that much privacy anyway) > > just my $.02 > > /Joakim > >
