GrapheneOS on Nostr: IMEI is not the only hardware identifier for the device available to the cellular ...
IMEI is not the only hardware identifier for the device available to the cellular network. Changing the IMEi alone isn't enough to hide the device identity from the network. It will only hide one commonly used ID rather than making the device not uniquely identifiable.
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2024-10-17 00:35:11Event JSON
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