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Your computer has its own MAC address, which is visible to any other computer on your network (on your side of the cable modem).Your wireless router has a separate MAC which can be seen by anyone close enough to get the signal (or who's plugged into the wired ports on the wireless router itself).Your cable modem has a MAC address which can be seen by Comcast and any computer on your personal network.Hopefully I'll do better (and if I'm incorrect in any of my statements, I'm sure somebody will correct me. Ok, a few other people have said basically the same thing I'm going to say, but I thought their answers don't do a very good job of describing the problem for a very non-technical user. You will have the same freedoms you now have - maybe more as you won't have to alter your personality to duck from the trolls or hide your email address from spammers your security will be increased and your in-box will have your email in it instead of a flaming bag of crap every morning. It will prevent much more pervasive problems involving people we don't have legal control of until we catch them. But we can deal with those by exercising our right to control the agencies that would use that data. Will this create tracking-privacy issues? Sure. You will be able to hide your identity from other users on a content provider (like here on /.) but you won't be able to hide from the content provider as you DOS his account-creation system or scan his ports.

Any community you join will have to agree to allow you to hide yourself.

Being on the Internet will be like being in public. One of the points of IPv6 is to get rid of the kind of Internet invisibility that allows spamming and phishing to flourish. You mean as though you looked up their name in the phone book?