(a little off topic diversion)
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 06:22:17PM +1000, Gryllida wrote:
An IP, as a fundamental identifier, has as much to do
with privacy
as a car number you see on a street. (Anyone can look up a name by
car number, in my area, which I expect to be common.)
Actually numberplates were originally conceived as a privacy
enhancing technology. The first numberplates had peoples' names on
them, but that was considered too intrusive.