[guardian-dev] reducing the trackability of Android's IPv6 support

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at guardianproject.info
Wed Feb 1 16:36:08 EST 2012


Android's IPv6 support apparently uses the phone's MAC as the last part
of IPv6 addresses, making it easy to track individual devices.  Here's
an app that randomizes the IPv6 address:

http://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/android-ipv6config

Anyone know anything about all this, or tried IPv6 on Android?

.hc


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