On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:29:56 GMT, Stuart Miller wrote:
> There is a lot of interesting technical discussion here, but I would like to
> take a different approach
> From all the posts here and on the 'firewall' newsgroup, I believe I
> understand what Aluxe is after.
....
> [changing the IP address] has nothing to do with security, but does grant a measure of privacy.
> Comments?

Hi Stuart Miller,

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you for being a voice of technical reason here.
I agree, we are not talking about security (that was my fault for equating
sescurity to privacy in the original subject line) as you fully understand.

We are only talking about a simple additive action to privacy.

I think (by now), we have definately established (especially in the case of
the tattletale NNTP posting host) that changing the IP address is additive
to privacy.

Thank you for understanding the request and for posting thoughts that
others can comment upon (as I am doing now).

I think we've established (not without argument):
a) The MAC address tattletale bit isn't subtractive to privacy.
b) Changing the MAC address is sometimes additive to privacy.
c) Changing the IP address is sometimes additive to privacy.
d) Changing the MAC address is trivial (takes five seconds).
e) Changing the IP address could be trivial (we're testing now).

I wonder how many of us knew this before this post?
I certainly did not so I thank all of you for edifying all of us.
More facts need to be ascertained; but this is a great start!