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Could you look at the wireless MAC, contact the manufacturer, figure out where it was sold, contact the seller, and ask for sales records? Guess it wouldn't pr
by ohnope 7y ago
Could you look at the wireless MAC, contact the manufacturer, figure out where it was sold, contact the seller, and ask for sales records?
Guess it wouldn't prevent people from buying on craigslist.
- joemi 7y agoYou could try, but I imagine most manufacturers/stores wouldn't give that info out to non-police. And some places might not even give it out to police without a legal warrant.
- ac29 7y agoMAC addresses are trivially configurable in software. Even if they weren't, its easy enough to buy random $5 wifi enabled dev boards from Aliexpress or somewhere similar, where detailed records tracing individual boards from manufacturer -> distributor -> reseller -> user are highly unlikely to exist.