Violating Americans’ privacy "not just unethical but illegal," senator says.

NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data::Violating Americans’ privacy “not just unethical but illegal,” senator says.

  • Fishbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Edit: Likely Sounds to me like an IP and/or MAC address ban (MAC address is tied to motherboards IIRC). I got banned once from one of my old favorite games (PSO2) for mistakenly swapping my vpn mid game. After a lot of troubleshooting and an apartment move in between, a MAC spoofing program is what did the trick.

    Side note, does lemmy use markdown format? If not, does anyone know what it uses?

    • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      MAC address is tied to motherboards IIRC

      It isn’t. It’s tied to your network hardware, and can be randomised/changed at will (or at least, the one it sends out can be altered). Some phones do that when connecting, to make it harder to track them, for example.

      If you’re using an ethernet port on your motherboard, then it’d be tied to that, but if you’re using Wi-Fi/Ethernet from a Network card, it’ll be connected to the card.

      • Fishbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Ah, that makes more sense. I couldn’t remember the specifics but I’ve have always done ethernet on my pc so that checks out for my experience.