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Who's going to build the mobile application that monitors the user's location (via GPS) and automatically sets the wireless NIC's MAC address to a specific value whenever the user is near one of these stores (and isn't connected to a real wireless network)?

Surely having a handful of shoppers who all have the same MAC address in one store at one time would screw up their analysis a little bit, no? It would certainly make it much more difficult to track a specific individual.




MAC addresses are unique, unless hacked.


That's kinda the point of setting everyone's to the same value.




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