By hiding the IMEI, the provider won’t be able to associate the device with me when I use it solely on public Wi-Fi such as in a café

I think you’re a little confused. Connecting to Public Wifi (or any wifi), will not reveal IMEI, it does reveal your Wifi MAC Address, and if you have Bluetooth on, it will reveal your Bluetooth MAC Address, but will not reveal your IMEI (unless you have malware on your phone).

In modern smartphones, including iOS, Android, and especially GrapheneOS, Wifi MAC addresses are spoofed by default, generating a random MAC address for each Wifi network. You can even go to Developer settings of Android to enable randomization for each different session of the same wifi network (or you can “forget” the network and reconnect and, from my testing, it would immediately change the MAC address for that network).

Although, if you have iOS or Google’s Android, you can’t be sure if the companies themselves are tracking you, but but a privacy Android ROM (like GrapheneOS) with Wifi MAC randomization enabled should be very safe.

Keep Airplane mode on so it stops connecting to cell towers.

Though I’m still curious about:

May I also ask how much information is carried to the second device by using hotspot? By this I meant the phone with IMEI will be able to know my device name, but what else? Will the phone with IMEI also be able to know the device model?

Your device name and Wifi MAC address is revealed, so change the default “Google Pixel” to something else to hide the fact that it’s a Google Pixel. But, some wifi access points can detect your device model anyways. My Xfinity gateway will show my Phone’s name and what model of phone I have. So I’ll just assume that: Device Name, Device Model, and MAC (which is randomized) is known. Shouldn’t be that much of a privacy risk unless Google Pixels aren’t popular in your area. If there are a lot of Google Pixels around, they can’t prove it was your Google Pixel.

Is it a good enough solution for IMEI tracking to use an alternative device to provide a hotspot connection?

What?

So you wanna use another phone as a hotspot and connect your GrapheneOS Phone to it?

I mean, what exactly do you mean by “IMEI Tracking”? Location?

Well they won’t know the location of your GrapheneOS Phone, but they’ll still know the location of your alternate phone. Not sure what you’re trying to achieve here.

Are kids living under helicopter parents that want them to study abroad even allowed to have a social media account by the parents?

Google DuckDuckGo “Tactical Pen” 😏

I love to see the reaction of those same tankies to West Gemany banning the communist party under the principle of Defensive Democracy.

Coming soon, in a Russian Satellite State near you! 🇷🇺🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇸

I think it’s because its funny to see the far-right seethe

I think you’re a little confused.

NYC = New York City

This is a Mayoral Primary Election. Every voter here is a resident of New York City

Mayor = Leader of the Executive Branch of a city.

For NY State, the Leader of the Executive Branch would be called the Governor

Higher Income people actually prefer the Socialist lmfao

Its somehow the poor people that get gaslighted into voting for conservatism

Ironic

If UK really wanted to protect the kids, they would’ve jailed Transphobe JK Rowings for hate crime

• except Pine64 it seems. (also somewhat modular btw)

Pinephone does not have lock-able bootloders. Meaning less security. In contrast I can install Calyx OS on a Fairphone, Re-Lock the bootloader, and its secure and private.

Also: Useless/Corrupt/Evil politicians

That means they’ll know I’m a citizen, right? RIGHT?

Spoilers: “All you Asians look the same, you must be this person” shows a picture of a conpletely unrelated person -ICE Agent said to me, an Asian American US Citizen (Well this didn’t happen yet, but I can imagine this happening like… soon.)

🙃

Eventually, the radiation will be gone.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are habitable now btw

Strategic = Hiroshima getting obliterated

Tactical = The Imperial Palace is obliterated, but rest of Tokyo is mostly intact.

Might be more challenging.

Laptop, its simple, if wifi and bluetooth works, its gonna work around the entire world (it’s all standardized).

Phones? I mean the main functions of a phone is phone calls and data use. Every country has different bands, and some carriers/countries have IMEI whitelisting.

You can thank the President for that. ahem tariff* ahem*

CIA has joined the chat

I actually did. The judge made up some BS “your arguments were bad” ruling. Activist judges. This is selective enforcement so that the plebs cannot legally pirate while corporate has free reign.

On Tuesday, June 24, U.S. senators

I stopped reading there. No way this gets the 2/3 veto override.