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?
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I’m not exactly sure what you’re trying to do here. Yes, if you use a phone as a hotspot, everything going through will be associated with that hotspot phone’s IMEI.
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?
It will know as much data as it would for any other wireless client. MAC address mostly.
thanks a lot! what about device model, is this info also sent?
By replacing it with another not-private one? For what purpose?
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
Not sure how that would work. IMEI is how the carrier knows who you are and grants you network access.
They certainly can be spoofed or cloned.
But thats as illegal as it gets and faces serious proscecution.
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