Mac-binding

  • IASbaba
  • March 5, 2020
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Mac-binding

Part of: GS Prelims and GS-II- Governance; GS-III- Awareness in IT

In News:

  • Use of Social media was allowed in Jammu & Kashmir but Internet connectivity is made available “with mac-binding”.
  • Every device has a Media Access Control (MAC) address, a hardware identification number that is unique to it.
  • While accessing the Internet, every device is assigned an IP address.
  • Mac-binding essentially means binding together the MAC and IP addresses, so that all requests from that IP address are served only by the computer having that particular MAC address
  • In effect, it means that if the IP address or the MAC address changes, the device can no longer access the Internet
  • Also, monitoring authorities can trace the specific system from which a particular online activity was carried out

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