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First, the idea behind hashing the MAC is so that they don't know your actual address. This doesn't work as MAC addresses have too small a space for hashing to be useful.

Second, MAC address is only exposed on the local network. It is not transmitted over the Internet, it's only at the link layer to identify nodes.




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