bombadil wrote:I'm starting to wonder if he/she actually believes they are the various manifestations of this persona. Completey batshit crazy, in other words.
bombadil wrote:And another thing: I wonder where in hell they got hold of all that inventory. I mean, think about it, over the years that's a hell of a lot of rpg material.
bombadil wrote:As opposed to ending up on the wrong side of Brian after, oh, let's say...a burrito eating constest?
jasonw1239 wrote:You can swap network cards out and operate with a new MAC address within minutes.
To make matters worse, there is hacker style software available for an unscrupulous user to forge their MAC address.
deimos3428 wrote:Very true. However, in the case of eBay you're looking to achieve two-way communication. Forging an address would be pointless.
a2jeff wrote:Reported this buffoon..... good work yet again Brian!
jasonw1239 wrote:I still do not think that eBay would ever block somebody by using the MAC address.
deimos3428 wrote:You're right, of course they wouldn't. It's not sufficient on it's own. However, if they were smart/organized/bclarkiesque they can use that supplementary info to assist in identifying a problematic individual's pattern, and once established, re-ban that individual much faster.
NetRodent wrote:How would Ebay even know what an end user's MAC address is? Wouldn't it be dropped when the packet leaves the local network and that layer of packet encapsulation is dropped?