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		krupan 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over th... 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.

sgjohnson 15 days ago [–]

> 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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