On Tue, 2021-08-03 at 11:19 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > Stable MAC addresses are used to track mobile devices. For > activists, journalists, spies, counter-spies (for those who remember > Mad Magazine), and drug dealers, anti-tracking measures can be useful > (or even life-saving). MAC addresses can be used to track consumers > in stores that sell customer data to aggregators.
Probably the big gripes are that: Calling something privacy mode without detailing how and what it does, and the name suggesting that it might offer more than it actually can. And those who have to deal with its ramifications. Chances are that on a home network, it probably doesn't matter what address your computer or phone is at, from day to day (until you try to debug something and don't know where to find it on the network). But things like your printer changing locations might be more of a problem. Especially with some older Windows OS which had a nasty habit of having to install drivers for the printer every time it was found at a new IP. Or people who used windows networking, and have to contend with the network going down randomly when it does it's "who's the boss" thing periodically. Those people that want to anonymise themselves would generally be doing that on purpose. Conversely, people who think they're being anonymous without doing anything about it are in for a rude shock. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 21 11:57:15 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
