Comment 31 for bug 176125

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.