Re: Microsoft watching us watch DVD movies (was: Microsoft finally)

From: Alun Jones (alun@texis.com)
Date: 02/28/02

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    From: alun@texis.com (Alun Jones)
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:39:26 GMT

    In article <3C7DDB4E.E6AE80D2@ieee.orgies.invalid>, Lassi
    =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hippel=E4inen?= <lahippel@ieee.orgies.invalid> wrote:
    >But then there's the Microsoft twist. Since they know the algorithm that
    >is used to generate the new suffices, they also know all your future
    >addresses. They can even work out the link layer address of your
    >interface.

    If that were true, then this would mean that anyone who's read RFC 3041 would
    know this information, too, and it would be somewhat useless of an RFC.

    Alun.
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