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But wait, is that changing the on-device IMEI, or just spoofing it when communicating with some random app? I assume changing the device IMEI would have the sa
by Chris2048 6y ago
But wait, is that changing the on-device IMEI, or just spoofing it when communicating with some random app?
I assume changing the device IMEI would have the same affect of directly spoofing it when connecting to mobile networks, which may be illegal; but If I leave all that alone, and only give a false IMEI to some random app, while connecting to mobile networks with the legitimate one, then what's the issue?
- novok 6y agoThis is the way to do it for legally mandated identifiers like that. Only the baseband knows the actually IMEI, otherwise the OS just blanks it out or randomizes it, down to kernel calls. Still isn't a very good solution, since you need to have a consistent identifier for some parts of networking to work, such as MAC addresses, IPs, bluetooth MACs, etc.