Re: [OT] /etc/machine-id "must not be exposed in untrusted environments"

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Subject: Re: [OT] /etc/machine-id "must not be exposed in untrusted environments"
From: Russ Allbery <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:12:44 -0700
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] [email protected]> (Marvin Renich's message of "Fri, 9 Aug 2019 12:17:13 -0400")
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Marvin Renich <[email protected]> writes:

> I don't get this at all.  Has there ever been a routine, best-practice
> of having a machine that frequently changed its IP address to prevent
> operators of other machines on the net from "fingerprinting"?  (I'm not
> talking about intentional use of an onion router.)

Yes, it's built into the IPv6 protocol.  See RFC 4941.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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