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Jivan Pal · 12w
You misunderstand my use of "distinguish" there. Even with IPv4, you can already be distinguished from other users when it comes to your identity/fingerprint, because such fingerprinting doesn't come ...
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Sorry, butI didn't misunderstand anything, in any case you didn't explain yourself properly. If you didn't want me to read it as "distinguish", maybe don't use that word.

And I also didn't failed to convince you of anything. I'm not trying to do that actually.
You are already completely convinced that you have the right opinion here.

I'm old enough to know that when people argue on the internet with the dedication that you're showing here, they don't want to be convinced, but they want to be right.

Anyway, if fingerprinting a device were enough, and knowing the final IP were of no use, there wouldn't be forcing the ISPs to keep one year of logs.

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Jivan Pal · 12w
"Distinguish" means "tell two things apart", e.g. one household from another. It doesn't mean "identify". Fingerprinting is likewise a means of distinguishing, but not necessarily identifying. The need for law enforcement to identify is where the need for the logs arises. I assure you that I don't...