Et al, There is one simple question that needs to be asked!
Ammar Salih @ [email protected] Are you a terrorist? Ephesians 4:32 & Cheers!!! A password is like a... toothbrush ;^) Choose a good one, change it regularly and don't share it. -----Original Message----- From: John Adams [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 2:20 PM To: Ammar Salih Cc: [email protected] list Subject: Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header Your proposal doesn't even give people a way to encrypt their location data; By moving geodata to a portion of the protocol which is not covered by commonly used encryption methods (i.e. HTTPS, which is up a few layers in the stack) people can't be protected should this data be monitored by a malicious intermediary. Think: Syria, China, Iran, or any other government which will kill you for your words online. Application protocols sending GPS data under say, HTTPS protect the end user from revealing their location to anyone on their path, forcing an intermediary to look up the IP in a common geo database which will be mostly inaccurate in pinpointing users, and hopefully will save lives. Companies like Twitter, Facebook, and some parts of google are going HTTPS by default for this very reason. This proposal is dead, you don't have the sense to lie down.
