XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: catwheezel@operamail.com   
      
   On 2016-01-31, Alice J.  wrote:   
   > Whiskers wrote in message   
   > slrnnarvp7.pc.catwheezel@ID-107770.user.individual.net:   
   >   
   >> You can't hide your presence when connecting to a WiFi access point.   
   >> The best you can do is disguise yourself - eg give your network card a   
   >> new MAC every time you use it, or only use a device once then discard   
   >> it.   
   >   
   > I always turn off my wifi card using the switch on the laptop.   
   > Unfortunately, my script to change the mac *requires* the laptop wifi   
   > card to be turned on (I don't really know why, but it does).   
   >   
   > So, I have to turn on the laptop far away in the parking lot first,   
   > and change the mac address, and then go into the hotspot.   
      
   [...]   
      
   If anyone is sufficiently interested in you to be trying to track your   
   internet access then they're almost certainly tracking your car and   
   public transport usage too.  And probably all the CCTV and security   
   cameras and web cams that might get a look at you as well.  Not that I   
   want to encourage paranoia of course.   
      
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