@bot oh thats what a router is for. Your computer has a mac address thats totally unique to it. When you send a request over the router, it stores your MAC and then when the data returns from the internet it rebroadcasts it back to everyone who is connected to the router. Computers by default only pay attention to information that is marked with their own mac address.
If you're wondering "can't everyone see my data then" the answer is kind of yes. Thats why some security systems warn you about open WiFi networks not being secure. However with https its not really a big deal because that's another layer of encryption and nobody but your computer can read that.
@RustyCrab@bot Wasn't there some hubub about some routers incorporating a mac address into part of a host's public IP address? I think they took some evvofrt to obfuscate that but it's still a lead worth reading up on
@ajax@bot its theoretically possible but its abnormal. Either way most computers have an option to scramble mac anyhow so its nonsense and changes every day
@bot@ajax no?
If like, the feds or whatever built a compromised router that sent off mac addresses, the server would also have to be built to read those. The chances of that happening is near 0.
Even if somebody gets your mac address they can't do much with it unless they're the government.
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