Why doesn’t every computer have a hardware based static ipv32 address, along with a private key to prove it is the sole owner of the address?
They do, it’s called an IP address.
Phones get numbers assigned to them by a cell service provider, in order to communicate on their network, which is basically the exact process for computers and IP addresses.
If you’re asking about the equivalent of like a SIM card, in the computer/internet world, that’s handled at higher layers, by digital certificates. And again, the process is almost exactly the same, except they don’t (usually) get put on physical chips.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Well, phone numbers do get re-assigned too.