'Richard's iPhone' could be anybody's, but it's easy to find out which Richard's it is
14 Mar 2017 at 04:01, Richard Chirgwin If you must give your devices names, please don't leak them on the Internet.That's the advice of one Internet Architecture Board (IAB) member, a former chair of the organisation and a German computer science academic. In an IETF RFC entitled Current Hostname Practice Considered Harmful, the trio (Christian Huitema, a former IAB chair; current IAB member Dave Thaler; and Rolf Winter of the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences) argue that too many 'net protocols leak sufficient information to make hostnames a privacy risk.
The “informational” RFC (meaning it's not on the standards track) fits in the context of the IAB's and IETF's long work to make privacy the default stance of the Internet.
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