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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Usually connect to Walmart's WiFi but they changed their policy I guess, won't be doing that now... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] merthyr1831 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes these login portals accept any old bogus email or burner account. They were logging your IP anyway so realistically doesnt add any more compromised dafa

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm gonna assume that by IP you mean MAC address because your IP is something that gets negotiated with the AP when you connect, changes every time you connect and can't really be linked back to your device at a public AP. In that case, the right move is to enable MAC randomization and connect through a VPN if you need to hide who you're talking to or just rely on TLS if you don't care that they know who you're talking to and only need to hide what was said.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can also set randomized MAC addresses in your wifi settings

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

That's what I meant when I said "enable MAC randomization"

People think your IP address is the key to your treasures but everyone you communicate with on the Internet has your IP or talks to someone who does.

[–] merthyr1831 2 points 9 months ago

Yup, meant MAC/other hardware info lol