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NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data::Violating Americans’ privacy "not just unethical but illegal," senator says.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Reddit can't see your MAC address. You don't have a direct L2 connection to Reddit.

While the game can, since it's running on your machine and can see everything.

EDIT: And I doubt they do IP bans of subnets given to end users, that's stupid, people change IPs all the time.

[–] fishbone 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, that was poor wording on my part, reading my comment back. I said it's likely that it was either of those, but I was thinking more along the lines of "it sounds similar to either of those". I also doubt they do IP bans, and I don't know enough about MAC address logistics. I assumed they'd be able to pull that info from a web browser, depending on the one used.