MAC ID Security and Privacy?

[Airplanet]

Please tell me can anyone see what we are watching or doing or access on our device(Computer, Mobile and laptop etc) using the MAC ID of our devices(Computer, Mobile and laptop etc)?

Inshort is the MAC ID sensitive thing if any stranger get this MAC ID of our device then what he can do?

Should i hide my devices MAC ID from everyone?

[Bruce]

“should you hide your MAC” - depends if you are an active member of the tinfoil hat brigade?

hiding your MAC will help with your security (if you are that anal about it) but hurt you in other ways (auto device detection for one).

as to watching what you are doing, there are far simpler ways to achieve that than to infiltrate your network - that’s why companies with super sensitive data have a Faraday’s cage imbedded into the building during construction. a van parked outside your house with the right hardware can simply read your screen.

[Airplanet]

Please reply me in simple words MAC ID is sensitive thing who provide these accesses which i ask above and why some youtubers hide MAC ID in videos?

[Bruce]

OK, in simple words…

Hiding your MAC address is for inexperienced people who think that will make them more secure.
it does and it doesn’t - it simply changes the attack vectors.

I suggest some in depth Googling on the subject, and prepare to go a 4 hour rabbit hole!

[Rustys]

As you were told on the other forum the answer is NO.

[Bruce]

closing this thread as OP has been answered here and on other forums.

Let Google be your friend.