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A Media Access Control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment.

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Defamatory post - obtaining evidence tracing perpetrator right to his laptop

1: The ISP only knows the MAC addresses for the address of the hotel's router. It may store that, but who cares. The hotel could store mac addresses for connected devices, and many do for captive port …
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Security provided through MAC filtering: Wired vs. Wireless Networks

Switches, Hubs, and Broadcast In old-style ethernet networks connected with a hub, all packets were broadcast to all stations on the network. This is also the way wireless networks typically act today …
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Can a website still detect my real MAC address even if I use different virtual machine each ...

Using a different VM means you're using a different computer, so theoretically you're a different person. If they DO identify you as the same individual, they are potentially doing so incorrectly -- o …
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