Sowmyan Jegatheesan

Sowmyan Jegatheesan, Dr. Nour El-kadri

Many Internet service providers (ISPs) throughout the world are now in the process of integrating IPv6 into their Internet access products for retail customers and corporate clients. One of the most important features of the IPv6 protocol is its huge address space. This will enable users to assign a life-long stable, unique and globally routable IP address to each personal device. All users will be able to set up public services at home and be able to communicate from and to their devices from any point in the network. The resulting end-to-end reachability is considered a major improvement over the current situation.IPv6 evoked a new debate between privacy and security in order to attract more unique IP addresses to locate users, especially with the advent of mobile devices. While the initial IPv6 specification from 1995 does already contain a variety of security considerations (namely, message integrity protection as well as encryption based on IPsec), privacy aspects have not played a major role in the beginning.

Sowmyan Jegatheesan

Privacy has been a major concern for everybody over the internet. Governments across the globe have given their views on how the internet space can be managed effectively so that there is some control on the flow of confidential information and privacy to users and as well as to data is achieved. Taking advantage of the lack of one unified body that could govern the online space with its strict and stringent rules certain websites use the text files called cookies in collecting data from users and using them for marketing them in advertisements networks and third party websites with the help of JavaScript and flash technologies. Even before many of us think what is happening around us in the online usage we are being invaded by the cookies and are targeted with their specific information that could tempt us to buy a product or service to which we were longing for in the recent past. Though it may be argued its a kind of marketing strategy to give the customer what he wants but it can no way be something like the user is just being targeted because he has already shown interest in something and he should be disturbed until he gets hold of something. Its purely a security breach as most of the websites dont ask permission for the usage of cookies and setting them into the users browser and the most important thing is no privacy statement is issued that the information is used for targeted marketing. This analysis paper has views from different sources, an example of such an activity that is a potential security breach and various other information of what these sites do to use the deadly cookies for commercial tricks.