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| NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: NANDBlog on January 02, 2021, 11:58:52 am ---I'm not talking about someone very paranoid, but here is a mac address lookup table: https://gist.github.com/aallan/b4bb86db86079509e6159810ae9bd3e4 --- End quote --- That has been well known since the days when DD-WRT supported one click MAC address lookups. The fix is simple: spoof your MAC. --- Quote ---It would take a lot of effort to go completely off their grid, and they have a lot of second hand information from you. It's very noticable. --- End quote --- Use an alternative like DuckDuckGo for your actual searches and feed Google junk. http://makeinternetnoise.com/index.html |
| cdev:
I read some time ago that mac address anonymization in both Apple and Android (google) phones was broken. (easy to figure out the real mac address) Since mac addresses are supposed to be used for authentication in lots of contexts, Its kind of unsurprising that their anonymization is non functional and easy for them to break. What I am trying to say is, if you have a phone, and use it, you really don't have privacy any more, the way things are going. Corporations have that data, sell it and soon, if they haven't already will probably have legal rights to it written into treaties and so on. And don't expect them to tell people, either. |
| Beamin:
--- Quote from: NANDBlog on January 02, 2021, 11:58:52 am ---I'm not talking about someone very paranoid, but here is a mac address lookup table: https://gist.github.com/aallan/b4bb86db86079509e6159810ae9bd3e4 Also, watch an episode of some well known television series. Or try ding the me on Netflix or Amazon, and search on your android phone "reddit xy series ". The search suggesting that pops up will be exactly the episode that you are watching. It would take a lot of effort to go completely off their grid, and they have a lot of second hand information from you. It's very noticable. --- End quote --- I found some products my father worked on on that list. You dont have to be paranoid but maybe you just like privacy. I can trace back to the month when my info went public on the internet back in the 2000's. I have been making fake "me's" when ever I can since I have such a unique name. I was in the hospital last month and the hospital registration guy came into the room to do my insurance and they asked do you live at "123 any st anytown USA" and that address was the address of a childhood friends mothers house I stayed at for 2 weeks 13 years ago. How the hell do they know that? Also when it comes to opening bank accounts there's some provision of the patriot act with a list and according to that list I'm dead, so I cant use 90% of major banks because there's no reasonable way to fix it. They dont exactly have a 1800 to call. |
| cdev:
DuckDuckGo is using Google's data. Needless to say, the web is changing and not in a good way. --- Quote from: NiHaoMike on January 02, 2021, 02:34:48 pm --- >>>Use an alternative like DuckDuckGo for your actual searches... --- End quote --- The idiocy of depending on totally biased multinational corporations for tools like search should be obvious to people. If it isn't. Well.. |
| cdev:
--- Quote from: janoc on January 02, 2021, 01:04:51 pm --- That is a standard Android feature since Android 8: https://source.android.com/devices/tech/connect/wifi-mac-randomization Nothing to do with any EEPROMs left blank, the entire thing is under software control of the Linux kernel in the Android device. Linux has supported this since a long time. --- End quote --- Security research has shown the mac address randomization to be ineffectual. |
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