Another interesting thought about MACs and any other chip-based IDs that get floated in the future. Spoofing aside, while MACs are supposed to be unique, there are a lot of dodgy mfgs that just burn the same MAC or set of MACs into entire batches of chips at a time. If a new standard was announced, it would be interesting to see the results of orgs trying to take advantage of the ID while shady mfgs continue to not give a flip.
🤔 In principle, you could just order a chip from a manufacturer with a specific ID tag so you could mimic someone you hated, or steal their shit, or otherwise fuck up their lives under such a system.
MACs are “supposed” to be unique identifiers baked into the network chip, so it’s partially a matter of how hard they work to make any other IDs spoof proof.
Fair.
🤔 I worry what will happen once unique identifiers are integrated into chips.
Another interesting thought about MACs and any other chip-based IDs that get floated in the future. Spoofing aside, while MACs are supposed to be unique, there are a lot of dodgy mfgs that just burn the same MAC or set of MACs into entire batches of chips at a time. If a new standard was announced, it would be interesting to see the results of orgs trying to take advantage of the ID while shady mfgs continue to not give a flip.
🤔 In principle, you could just order a chip from a manufacturer with a specific ID tag so you could mimic someone you hated, or steal their shit, or otherwise fuck up their lives under such a system.
Hrm. 🫤 I admit that’s pretty problematic.
The vast majority of ethernet devices can be set to use any arbitrary mac address
MACs are “supposed” to be unique identifiers baked into the network chip, so it’s partially a matter of how hard they work to make any other IDs spoof proof.