Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers?
slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 months agoIf you tried to route everything with a MAC address, (which isn’t possible, but for arguments sake we will pretend it is) the problem is that when you take your phone with its MAC address off your wifi and on to your work wifi, Where would the registry be? How would the Internet know how to find your phone? Do you just log into one giant global registry so that everyone can find your phone when they are trying to communicate with it? That would be a giant fucking database and everyone would always be trying to use it.
This is a solved issue called EUI-64 IPv6 addressing. It is a privacy nightmare.
ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah I addressed that IPv6 CAN do it, but you’re right.
Philosophically, I don’t want people or companies following me around that much, hence the “private MAC addresses” that came out a few years ago
slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I hate to break it to you but MAC randomisation has been around since 2007. Fuck we are getting old.
ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Shut your filthy mouth! 😝
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
And before that, a bad firmware flash could garble the MAC.
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
And before that, a bad firmware flash could garble the MAC.