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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/08/13 13:42, Ian Batten wrote:<br>
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<div>You have to wonder at the people the BBC talks to:<br>
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rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"The problem stems from the way that
the fixed internet has been designed," said Prof Rahim
Tafazolli, director of Surrey University's Centre for
Communications Systems Research.</p>
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rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"Many people can share a single IP
address and the IP address may be dynamic - meaning
there's a new address issued each time they log on - while
a communication traverses across different networks. It
can be difficult to link all these addresses and trace
them back to the origin.</p>
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Moreover it is not a bug, it *is* a feature...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3022">http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3022</a><br>
"Traditional NAT can be viewed as providing a privacy mechanism..."<br>
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rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"One possible solution would be to
find a way to associate a person's internet use with a
fixed and unique number such as their mobile number or a
device's MAC [media access control] address.</p>
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that would require changes in the way addresses are
allocated on the internet and changes would need to be
adopted internationally because we couldn't just change it
in the UK."</p>
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black; text-align: left; ">Yeah. You mean "IPv6 would be a
good idea", I think.</div>
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Somebody should tell Surrey about <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4941">http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4941</a><br>
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For next few hours you can see the most appalling load of biased
tosh towards end of <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01sfxqc/Daily_Politics_07_05_2013/">http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01sfxqc/Daily_Politics_07_05_2013/</a><br>
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Would be good if <a
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mjxb/faq">BBC got some
complaints</a> that viewers left clueless of:<br>
- substance of IP issue,
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- that EU DRD made-in-Britain,
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- preservation/retention dichotomy
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- ISC refuses hear evidence from outside govt. (unlike Aus, Can, US
counterparts)
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Absence of above context makes charge of LibDem irresponsibility a
Charter-breaching issue
of political bias<br>
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Caspar<br>
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