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I agree. If every of us would do their homework right.

Doing my part.

🙂 The world is full of qualified professionals nowadays mate! You are one of them for sure!

Yup and then they move the spyware/malware/etc into a layer below where nobody knows what is inside…

How is your baseband modem in your smartphone doing, by the way?

Can somebody explain me Proton in detail? 😉

And still I wonder why almost all public institutions use Micro$oft & Co…

Nothing to see here, Same BS, Laws that do nothing, See GDPR,

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IMEIs are unique by design… Any existing device SHOULD have a unique IMEI. So when you use an older device IMEI should work perfectly.

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Yes you are correct!

But in our discussion it was implied/assumed a random UNIQUE IMEI or MAC address.

For example most of people have a pile of unused older phones which are NOT IN USE and you could use thoses IMEIs without issues.

No, there are no confusions. Changing the “id” like the MAC address or the IMEI has no impact on any system.

Its just like a new device joins a network.

For example, when a client device gets its IP from the dhcp server on a router, which allocates a random ip from a specific pool, it does not influence anything like ip packets routing…

The real issue is that it is forbiden, BECAUSE if you randomize it you do not have an unique id anymore to trace back a specific device…

Hope is more clear for you now!

Lets talk about IMEIs of our phones too… Why is it illegal to change your phone IMEI?

Exactly!

i personally stay away of any “cloud” connection like hik connect…

By cloud connection I mean that the device connects to the provider’s cloud (vpn) and you(end user) connect to the provider to view your OWN video footage.

In terms of privacy this is disaster because the provider can view/process as in AI all your video footage in real time. Further the provider can track the shit out of us and do many other nasty things…

Hope it helps!

Encrypt it with a strong password in the first place…

“Historically, the default name for this initial branch was master. This term came from Bitkeeper, a predecessor to Git. Bitkeeper referred to the source of truth as the “master repository” and other copies as “slave repositories”. This shows how common master/slave references have been in technology, and the difficulty in knowing how the term master should be interpreted.”

Excerpt from the link the other member posted above! You’re welcome!