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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

๐Ÿค” We need an ActivityPub app that is basically just a user account holder that is tied to their IP or MAC address so individuals can carry the same info throughout the fediverse, block instances they personally don't like, and so bans from instances are actually permanent and enforceable.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IPs change constantly, MAC is per network device (a laptop with Wi-Fi and wired has two different MACs), so you would need to be able to have a list of MACs and MACs can be easily spoofed so thats a whole other set of issues.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair.

๐Ÿค” I worry what will happen once unique identifiers are integrated into chips.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

๐Ÿค” 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. ๐Ÿซค I admit that's pretty problematic.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The vast majority of ethernet devices can be set to use any arbitrary mac address