On Tue, 2019-12-03 at 06:10 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Unfortunately, your MAC addr does not stay local. > > First is IPc6 addr construction. Your IP address is now recognized > as a major tracking of activity number. Even without IPv6 using your MAC, IPv6 would be a fingerprint for you, with its "one individual IP for everything in the world" approach. And with your public IP being assigned to you upstream, completely out of your control (while it could use your MAC, your ISP could use their own permanent unique customer identifier for you). > There are a lot of documents out there that are looking into how > numbers are being used to track, and in some cases, harm people. Thus > the move to 'break the chain'. I don't deny that. Only the other day I received an extortion attempt, followed by two death threats, on WhatsApp, with my full name and address (harvested from somewhere unknown). First its a unknown sender saying some package is being delivered to your home address (which I completely ignored), then threats about you wanting whatever that kind of thing was. All completely out of the blue. And there's bugger all you can do about it. The app gives you a report and block feature, and that's it. There's no whitelist feature, you can only blacklist every bit of crap as it comes in, or change your phone number. There's no contact with the WhatsApp people, and once you use the report and block feature it deletes the received message(s). I was once asked what could be done to stop someone spamming, and my response was the only thing that could possibly work would be to cut off their hands. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.4.3.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Nov 13 23:58:53 UTC 2019 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
