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
    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·
          21 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)