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Re:Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Interne... by asveikau on Saturday May 29, 2021 @11:18PM (#27330313)
Do you mean the "xfinitywifi" ssid? Afaik you don't get the customer's IP address when you use that. And you definitely need to enter your Comcast credentials to use it, so law enforcement could probably trace who is really using it.

They probably remember your login based on wifi MAC, so it's probably easy to fake being somebody else, however.

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Re:Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Interne... by dhosek on Saturday May 29, 2021 @11:49PM (#27330446)
They do it a bit more sophisticated than that. There's an xfinity profile that gets loaded and after the initial authentication you actually connect to a different SSID. When I had Comcast, I used this occasionally, but it was overall pretty flakey and I ended up disabling that SSID on my phone because it kept connecting to non-functioning xfinity hotspots while I was out and about and then I'd have no internet.
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