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Originally Posted by lovinit52  I'm not naive enough to think that I couldn't be tracked if someone with the right authority wanted to, but just for my own knowledge I'd like to get something clarified.
I understand how the physical address of the building could be tracked, but anything beyond this is baffling to me.
Say i bring my laptop to somewhere with free wifi (library, coffee shop, university campus, etc.) out of the 100 people on the wireless network at the time, how does it get tracked to me? |
You will have to connect to the wireless network with a wireless network interface card. Every network interface card has a "unique" identifier - your transmissions across a local network (such as the wireless network you described) will be tagged with your MAC address (the unique identifier), rather than your IP address. Your IP address will be logged alongside your MAC address on the wireless router's records.
Joining a free anonymous local network like the one you have described makes it much harder to be identified, but far from impossible...