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IPv6 and 5G will make life hell for spooks and cops say Australia's spooks and cops

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Re: So they want..

"[...] therefore police cannot identify an individual from IP address, only a router"

The ISP may also be multiplexing several customers' home routers' connections onto one external IPv4 address by dynamic port address translations in the firewall. The multiplexing might also spread a customer's connections dynamically across several of the ISP's external IPv4 addresses.

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