Google OSI Model - specifically read up on layers 1 through 3. HTTP has absolutely nothing to do with it. Your question is nonsense.
Your MAC address isn't visible past your default router. This is Networking 101.
Google OSI Model - specifically read up on layers 1 through 3. HTTP has absolutely nothing to do with it. Your question is nonsense.
This isn't difficult to solve.
Stop using IE (which barely qualifies as a browser) and stop using Chrome if you have privacy concerns, Google doesn't give a damn about your privacy.
Use Firefox, given it's open source nature any malicious code would be spotted quickly. Use Firefox with Ad Block Pro and Ghostery to ignore cookies and ads. If you're super paranoid, use NoScript.
What are you are talking about? As stated below, your MAC address is only visible on your local subnet. They can track you by your IP address on the Internet, but not by MAC.Google OSI Model - specifically read up on layers 1 through 3. HTTP has absolutely nothing to do with it. Your question is nonsense.
Unless of course you think the .gov has access to traffic logs of every router connected to the Internet.
What are you are talking about? As stated below, your MAC address is only visible on your local subnet. They can track you by your IP address on the Internet, but not by MAC.
Unless of course you think the .gov has access to traffic logs of every router connected to the Internet.
What are you are talking about? As stated below, your MAC address is only visible on your local subnet. They can track you by your IP address on the Internet, but not by MAC.
Unless of course you think the .gov has access to traffic logs of every router connected to the Internet.
You are just going to confuse people. No one said there were no MAC addresses included in an IP packet. I said that the user's MAC address was not visible beyond their local subnet. It is right their in my quote.Ok lets talk about the OSI model again. DOCSIS (cable modems) are basically layer 2 devices. Your cable internet at home is layer 2 up to the CMTS (cable modem termination system) This is the mac address that the ISP can see. Now lets say your in a Starbucks using the wifi. That wifi endpoint can see every mac that's connected to it but it doens't pass that mac along to its next hop which would be the cable modem, dsl modem etc whatever. These crappy consumer wifi endpoints do have logging features. It would be entirely possible if enough effort was put into it to track down a user at a starbucks on a specific ip/mac. but anything in realtime would be theoretically impossible due to the number of router's your internet traffic hops through. And saying that a mac address is only visible on a subnet is not accurate. A subnet exists on layer 3 and does not care about layer 2 traffic. To further complicate things there are mac addresses in layer 3 protocols. but those mac addresses are from the device that forwarded the packet. Trying to simplfy this as much as possible and hope I cleared a few things up.
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Google OSI Model - specifically read up on layers 1 through 3. HTTP has absolutely nothing to do with it. Your question is nonsense.
Oh brother.
NSA used Firefox flaws to snoop on you
Firefox is no more safer than any other browser out there.
The Internet isn't safe. That's why I switched to carrier pigeons.
Less government regulation, more free market. Sounds like exactly what INGO usually claims they want.
There is NO free market where internet access is concerned. Just little fiefdoms and government sponsored monopolies. While I'm not in favour of government regulations this is one that I am torn on.Less government regulation, more free market. Sounds like exactly what INGO usually claims they want.
There is NO free market where internet access is concerned. Just little fiefdoms and government sponsored monopolies. While I'm not in favour of government regulations this is one that I am torn on.