cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32194340

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?

  • eleitl@lemmy.zip
    1·
    2 days ago

    If you’re always carrying the hotspot device with you, and the sim is nonanonymous (or can be easyly deanonymyzed with correlation), then your position is still traceable.

      • eleitl@lemmy.zip
        1·
        22 hours ago

        You can orbot all the things, so your endpoint and your exit are not associated. Using a mobile router is a good policy, despite of GrapheneOS good modem isolation.