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Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers?
jeffhykin@lemm.ee 1 month agoI’m shocked this answer has so many upvotes. No, a MAC address is not close to a phone number.
- “two network interfaces connected to two different networks can share the same MAC address”
- “Many network interfaces, however, support changing their MAC addresses”
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 month ago
JesterIzDead@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Not quite. IMEIs are unique to hardware. IMSIs are unique to SIMs
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You ask a question then try to call out an answer? Bold I’ve cotton.
Sure you can change your phone number, it’s called spoofing, or just call your provider and get a new one, sometimes they charge.
jeffhykin@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Fair, I could have said fully qualified number, including country code.
And also fair, instead of saying a MAC could be edited, I should’ve said each phone number has one global owner, while each MAC address could have many owners.
Corrections have been made 👍