“A proposal to improve the way information flows across the
Internet is drawing attention from privacy advocates, who worry its
design could be used to trace a sender’s identity.
“Engineers creating a new Internet address system are
proposing to include a unique serial number from each personal
computer within every parcel of data. That could vastly
simplify the sometimes befuddling job of setting up computers so
they can talk to each other on a network.
“But critics warn that, if adopted, the move could potentially
strip away a measure of anonymity and security…’