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?

  • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
    4·
    14 hours ago

    They certainly can be spoofed or cloned.

    But thats as illegal as it gets and faces serious proscecution.

    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      12 hours ago

      Spoofing IMEI isn’t helping if OP pays for the service with bank account / credit card, or walks in a store to pay but with face exposed, or turns on the cell-hotspot device on at home (because they’ll be able to associate the SIM/Service-Plan with your address via cellular triangulation, and thus your identity)