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Hurricane Electric vs Cogent and IPv6
217 sats \ 4 comments \ @jbschirtzinger 26 Oct tech
I can't say I'm a big proponent of IPv6 mostly due to its ability to tie unique IP addresses to Mac addresses in a 1:1. https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/vu3zji/does_an_isp_use_the_mac_address_to_issue_an_ipv6/
I think this potential condition is bad for the internet in general since someone always gets the bright idea to play "state censor" once a 1:1 relationship with anything is made.
Nonetheless, there is some sort of schism between Hurricane Electric and Cogent concerning IPv6 and its adoption which sounds a little like some kind of toll road problem: https://bgp.tools/kb/partitions
Probably a better solution to the whole thing is to forget about IP addresses AND mac addresses, and adopt some form of onion/mesh routing that randomizes a given number as a general rule for accessing the web and only allows for making it permanent when someone wants to hang out a shingle.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @xz 26 Oct
Ii wonder how much more reliable and faster mesh networks would be if ISPs under the direction of state actors did not have to try to censor shit all the time. As far as I understand, the development and infrastructure do a pretty bang up job of resiliant infrastructure maintenance.
IP6 sounds like a digital gulag. Did we run out of unique IP4 addresses yet?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jbschirtzinger OP 26 Oct
Ii wonder how much more reliable and faster mesh networks would be if ISPs under the direction of state actors did not have to try to censor shit all the time. As far as I understand, the development and infrastructure do a pretty bang up job of resiliant infrastructure maintenance.
That's a great question. There isn't much financial incentive to make privacy efficient. There is more reward to sell user data.
IP6 sounds like a digital gulag. Did we run out of unique IP4 addresses yet?
That depends on who you ask and what their motives are. Nat extends the address space to reach farther than it could otherwise.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 26 Oct
MAC's can be spoofed, and if your operation is really that sensitive you have throwaway hardware
onion/mesh routing
That's retarded, a handful of privacy larps aren't going to get the internet at large to use slow and unreliable comms
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jbschirtzinger OP 26 Oct
MAC's can be spoofed, and if your operation is really that sensitive you have throwaway hardware
Yeah, and rich people have throw-away cars in case they need privacy from traffic cameras.
That's retarded, a handful of privacy larps aren't going to get the internet at large to use slow and unreliable comms
A handful of privacy larps got the internet at large to adopt the internet at large.
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