Reply to post: Re: Underwhelming

How legacy IPv6 addresses can spoil your network privacy

Keith Langmead

Re: Underwhelming

Yeah hardly earth shattering, at least based on that explanation of the "vulnerability" in the article. Surely in terms of risk, this is no more than the difference you currently get in a NAT IPv4 setup between whether you have a dynamic IP address allocation from the ISP or a static IP address, and no one's suggesting that having a static IP address is a terrible thing that should be avoided at all costs. Plus, in order to take advantage of it, you as the attacker need access not just to a site/service that the victim connects to, but one that more than one of their devices including the vulnerable TV in this example connects to. All that just to know that the connection you saw yesterday came from a device on the same network as you're seeing today, but not necessarily the same actual device.

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