I remember some telco guy saying “the IMEI is unique until it isn’t.” We always wondered if you could crash part of a cell network by dropping in 8192 phones w

I remember some telco guy saying “the IMEI is unique until it isn’t.” We always wondered if you could crash part of a cell network by dropping in 8192 phones with the same IMEI. Everyone needs to deal with non unique identifiers, but the question is how many do they expect? FYI this is a problem on Ethernet, when you get boards that haven’t been initialized. Things don’t like multiple MAC addresses with 0s.