Is it a good enough solution for IMEI tracking to use an alternative device to provide a hotspot connection?

This approach appears to protect any new device that hasn’t inserted a SIM card from being identified.

But I’m not sure how much information is carried to the second device by using hotspot.

Is this a good solution so far? Should I try to spoof IMEI?

  • happeningtofry99158@lemmy.worldOP
    2·
    1 day ago

    thanks a lot.

    I am trying to keep my device IMEI information private

    May I also ask how much information is carried to the second device by using hotspot? By this I meant the phone with IMEI will be able to know my device name, but what else? Will the phone with IMEI also be able to know the device model?

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      22 hours ago

      It will know as much data as it would for any other wireless client. MAC address mostly.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      31·
      1 day ago

      I am trying to keep my device IMEI information private

      By replacing it with another not-private one? For what purpose?

      • happeningtofry99158@lemmy.worldOP
        1·
        1 day ago

        using another not-private device is just a temporary solution. In the end I would like to use a portable router that supports MAC/IMEI randomnization

        • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
          51·
          1 day ago

          Not sure how that would work. IMEI is how the carrier knows who you are and grants you network access.

          • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
            4·
            23 hours ago

            They certainly can be spoofed or cloned.

            But thats as illegal as it gets and faces serious proscecution.

            • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
              3·
              22 hours ago

              Spoofing IMEI isn’t helping if OP pays for the service with bank account / credit card, or walks in a store to pay but with face exposed, or turns on the cell-hotspot device on at home (because they’ll be able to associate the SIM/Service-Plan with your address via cellular triangulation, and thus your identity)