Philipp,

That's not what I said (that's what tonfa said in reply to my note). At
many higher education institutions, we have policies that we need to
know who is using any given IP address at any point in time. Privacy
addresses make this much, much harder. Yes, we can disable them on
managed machines, but not all machines on our network are managed. For
example, student laptops on wireless networks. So, the default setting
matters. Microsoft enables privacy addresses by default on Vista and 7,
and it is already creating problems for us. I've heard similar
complaints from several colleagues at other universities. Frankly,
privacy addresses do very little to enhance privacy and create
significant headaches for network administrators. Please, leave them
disabled by default.

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Title:
  Ubuntu should activate the IPv6 privacy extension by default (echo 2
  >/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/use_tempaddr)

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