Re: Its War!
- From: "C.Joseph S. Drayton" <csdcs@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 14 Mar 2008 19:53:22 GMT
stanley wrote:
::If you are using your personal laptop in a library or at work and
your internet activity is tracked, who cares? Even if you connected
from your personal office, if its not a company computer all they can
tell is that a such and such non-network laptop visited such and such
sites at such and such time. They cant identify you, the location,
or anything else..::
::..or am I wrong?::
Hi Stanley,
Your wi-fi card has what is called a MAC address, a 'theoretically'
unique identifier for the wi-fi card in your machine (of course there
are now programs that allow you to 'fake' your MAC address).
When you connect to the router (whether physically or through wi-fi),
your MAC address is give to the router.
So yes, if you don't fake your MAC address, your traffic can be
tracked, and tied directly to your machine.
I even heard of a case where a guy was framed. The smart-aleck got a
hold of his victims MAC address. He then faked the MAC address on his
laptop and accessed some data he wasn't supposed to. The victim lost
his job because the company he worked for said that it was the victims
computer that had accessed the files.
--
Sincerely,
C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T
CSD Computer Services
Web site: http://csdcs.tlerma.com/
E-mail: csdcs@xxxxxxxxxx
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