[lir-wg] Static IP addresses

Bob Arnesen wrote:
> We live in Stockholm, Sweden and have the big government telephone 
> company TELIA as our ISP. We have had internet services through their 
> ADSL for a little over a year now and to my surprise I have recently 
> found out that Telia has assigned us a fixed IP address. Every time we 
> log on to the internet we start surfing with the _same IP address every 
> time._ From a security and personal integrity point of view we may as 
> well be surfing with our Social Security Numbers if that?s the case. Of 
> course dealing with a company the size of Telia you are immediately in 
> David against Goliath position, and their position up to now is to just 
> jack us around and assume no responsibility. When we had the old 56K 
> modem and even ISDN, every time we got on the net we had a new IP 
> address. Impossible to trace us and our surfing habits to a specific 
> number. But not so with Telia?s ADSL.
> 

If you think that a variable ip address gives you internet anonymity 
then you are very very niave indeed.

ISP's can easily track individual address's back to login accounts via 
stored logs. All someone needs is an ip address and a time and the isp 
can locate the person that was logged in.

Me thinks you are suffering from a reaction of the jerky knee variety


> My questions are the following:
> 
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> 
>  q       Is Telia?s current practice as I have described considered a 
> breach of privacy for the private person/customer?

I doubt it.

Are they in breach of privacy for giving you a static phone number?

> 
> q       Is Telia following agreed International and /or European 
> standards regarding IP addresses?

Working for an ISP myself what they're doing looks pretty normal to me.

> 
> q       Am I able to lodge a formal complaint against such practices, 
> either at the Ripe 44 meeting in Amsterdam in January or somewhere else?
> 
>  

I guess you probably can, I'm sure the ensuing mirth will be quite 
refreshing.

given the sudden increase in paranoia levels around here this might be 
of some use to you aswell

http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html

;-)


Regards

Mark Guz

> 
> I do hope that The LIR-WG will be able to provide me with some answers. 
> Regards,
> 
> Robert Arnesen
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