We are one step away from Gulags. Next after covid as an excuse comes internment for 'potential' terrorists, with no charge or trial. Lefties in Congress are already trying to restrict physical presence of Republicans as making them physically afraid of assault.
There's a yes and a no on that. On one hand, yes, the ones desirable to the elite probably will not get the population-reduction vaccine, but what if they get some weird nanochip brain control materials? So they don't have to be blackmailed but can be directly influenced, or maybe get injected with something that in effect perverts their brain and drives them to urges that allow them to get blackmailed when they satisfy the urges. I mean, hormones already drive brains to do stupid things; what if you could inject nano things to do the same, and then Epstein types have a field day with you?
This is not about health, this is about exerting a show of power.
I've said it was going to get worse, and it is already. This is just the start of abuses. They are going to ramp up to mandatory vaccination or involuntary restriction of travel. All last year they were champing at the bit while Trump was in office. With him gone and their puppet installed, they are resuming control efforts aligned with the virus scam. I hate to think what new regulations and restrictions they will enforce. I suspect mandatory Real ID linked to vaccinations.
Keep in mind that our political representatives travel a lot. This will be used to mandate that all reps have been injected. You have to wonder what they will put into their bodies.
Whites are the new Juden, and the left are the new Nazis. This is a parallel to the 1930s, with a slightly different coat on it. The Dems in Congress are actually trying to pull it off, with the GOP as targets. And we have people like AOC trying to claim they do not feel physically safe in the halls of Congress with Republicans around, so they need to be ejected. Look what they are trying to do to Cruz and MTG. This is the start of a Commie-like purge but with a Nazi flavor. But, these people are mentally ill, too. Or seriously immature, over-emotional, and out of control. Mommy didn't spank them and they haven't learned boundaries, nor to play well with others. Then they get recruited by the Commies, which gives them purpose in their worthless lives.
True, but a direct hardware query will always return the factory hard-coded value. So even if the average person runs spoofing software for this on normal Internet packet use, they are vulnerable to specialized tools for attack. So my guess is the average random Redditor doesn't run spoofing, and probably some nosy people have fingerprinted them. A side note, some software vendors use MAC address on user machine as a key to authentication of software license.
Any VM runs on physical hardware that will have Ethernet hardware, and ALL Ethernet hardware at its PHY layer each has a unique ID. That means the VM and any other OS on the machine all have to talk to the same IDed hardware regardless. So a VM does not buy you true anonymity. Plus, any tool that can find a way to query the machine's BIOS can get the unique MAC address and then you're identifiable. The MAC address cannot be changed, it is permanent. Also, packets contain that unique ID; with a VPN, the provider does know your MAC address, so a corrupt provider can give info on you if an agency demands it.
For more info read: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23935095/how-are-mac-addresses-used-in-routing-packets#23935402
The simple version is, even if you use a VPN they can still get the MAC address on your computing device, by various means including tricks. Then they can correlate usage of that value with who you are, by comparing data from various accesses. Now, Reddit alone can't do that, indeed they can use multiple data sources in order to cross-correlate. ANYONE who does online gaming will be traceable by this means. The short take is, you are not totally anonymous even with VPN, if you are on a PC. If you are on a burner phone it is harder but if you make even one slipup, you're hosed.
The Academy awards an Oscar to Joseph Biden for Best Performance on a Fake Set While Signing a Lot of EOs He Hasn't Even Read Because of All the Drugs. Accepting the Oscar for Biden while he is incapacitated is Kneepad Harris.
Is anyone surprised that a corrupt president pressures a corrupt industry to manipulate investors in order to protect hedge funds designed to extract money from investors?
I have five dollars to bet that Biden sells Staten Island to the Chinese for a missile base close to the US. And to save money on takeout delivery fees he will install a Chinese restaurant next to the Oval Office in the White House. Chef named Xispionu.
If by some trick outside software can invoke BIOS calls, it can read the data straight off the hardware. The MAC address can exist as a value burned in on each MAC's firmware or ROM; the value exists at a memory address one could query, or might be accessible through a chip in the HW implementing the Ethernet Phy layer, I believe. I'd have to go read old developer datasheets I haven't reference for 15 years to remember what the method is.