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?

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
    51·
    19 hours 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·
      16 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·
        15 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)