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They lied to you about car surveillance (odysee.com)

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[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

a random UNIQUE IMEI

How do you guarantee that it's unique? I think you can't

For example most of people have a pile of unused older phones which are NOT IN USE and you could use thoses IMEIs without issues.

Fair, but how does one know which IMEIs were used by now unused phones?

[–] xilona@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

IMEIs are unique by design... Any existing device SHOULD have a unique IMEI. So when you use an older device IMEI should work perfectly.