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[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Wait could I theoretically go to a UK police station or somewhere with a lot of police and pick up their MAC addresses.

Then if I were to be involved in some direct action I could get alerts that the police are nearby?

If so what device do I need to do this mobile? Like a laptop? Or one of those little orange hacker tools which the name is escapes me right now.

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting idea, but aren't most MAC addresses randomised per connection nowadays?

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MAC addresses are assigned to the hardware and do not change with each boot (first 3 pairs are company second 3 pairs are the device), unless you spoof the address then you can make it display any MAC address you wish but the MAC of the device never changes.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago

Advertised WiFi MAC is randomized per AP by most devices these days, and Bluetooth also have equivalent privacy protocols. So unless you can get the device to connect to you then you won't see a static identifier that can be followed

Yeah I should have known that I guess as iPhones have that setting.

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