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[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