MAC address

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-09-21, Ajay <abra9823 at mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote:

> the ability of a commercial service provider to link your interactions
> together and generate a profile of you - that is what i am trying to guard
> against.

Then don't use their LAN.

> i would like users to have the option of interacting with a
> service under different pseudonyms. thus the information they
> exchange the first time may be different from what they
> exchange a second time around.

The only way this is going to work is to break the rules in the
802 standards.  AFAICT, the main problem you have to worry
about is MAC collisions.  What if two users end up using the
same MAC address?

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