On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 08:30:14AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 28 mai 20, 00:04:01, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I need to get something here wifi enabled so I don't run my sprint > > bill up. Just getting the weather does that. I probably need to update > > my dd-wrt router and enable the wifi in it, but I'll have to set it so > > the neighbors are locked out, probably by catching this ones MAC and > > disallowing anything else. > > MACs can be cloned (though I doubt your neighbours would do this).
Don't rely on MACs for device identification. These days it's quite probable that a mobile device picks a random MAC, for (well-founded, alas) privacy reasons [1]. Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address#Randomization -- tomás
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