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Re:I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for by RHSeeger on Thursday January 17, 2013 @09:50AM (#5072901)
> Are you really claiming that people don't change MAC address in order to avoid being identified with previous use under a particular MAC address, that it's not solely to mask identity.

There are many reasons one might want to avoid being identified with previous use under a particular MAC address (or other identifiable information). For example, if you're paranoid about all the big brother tracking going on in the world (just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you), you might consider many such techniques to break up your trail from the perspective of said trackers.

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Re:I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for by pbhjpbhj on Friday January 18, 2013 @10:42AM (#5079144)
>There are many reasons one might want to avoid being identified with previous use //

OK, so you get blocked, change MAC/IP and that gets you access again. Would you claim to not know that you were now circumventing an access block? How about if you were downloading the 300th (or more likely 30,000th) document from a repo when it was clearly said users were limited to 3?

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