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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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[–] T156 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

MAC address is tied to motherboards IIRC

It isn't. It's tied to your network hardware, and can be randomised/changed at will (or at least, the one it sends out can be altered). Some phones do that when connecting, to make it harder to track them, for example.

If you're using an ethernet port on your motherboard, then it'd be tied to that, but if you're using Wi-Fi/Ethernet from a Network card, it'll be connected to the card.

[–] fishbone 1 points 9 months ago

Ah, that makes more sense. I couldn't remember the specifics but I've have always done ethernet on my pc so that checks out for my experience.