Changing mobo = Cards getting blocked...

I read it this morning and thought WTF?

I understand banks and the like traces IP address, but boiling right down to the MAC? I call BS because like the OP mentioned, new devices and the likes don't seem to be a problem for me.

Lloyds TSB, HSBC and Barclays are my banks and no problem here with different devices logging in, including my phone when I first got it, I mistyped my pass code twice before logging in and bank transferred some funds to a new account. No calls or rejection, and that's Lloyds who phoned me a couple years back when someone tried buying stuff with my card on a tatoo website.
 
LOL making a complaint as this is just utter BS and hasnt even been researched, damn waste of licence fee paying what ever journalist created this rubbish
 
tidusjar said:
I just don't understand where he is getting his information from...
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"Scan" apparently.

BBC said:
The motherboard swap was undoubtedly the cause of all the trouble, said James Gorbold, a veteran DIY PC maker from electronics firm Scan, which sells computers and components.

"What I suspect has happened is that your motherboard will have a different network controller," he told me.

That's important, he said, because the address on that component, the MAC address, is logged along with an Internet Protocol (IP) address when a computer goes online. Everything that connects to the net needs an IP address so data can reach the right destination.

"That MAC address has been communicated somewhere along the line to your ISP," he said. Together, he said, they gave a basic guarantee of ID. Changing them made it again look like I was a fraudster because, as far as the bank knew, all those transactions were being done from a new location, using a different computer. The way IP addresses are handed out gave them no clue about the real world location of that address.
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MAC address is only really used for local networks. There would need to be a client side install for someone not on your home network (or connected to your insufficiently secured wi-fi) to access that.
 
Complete and utter tosh! I have never heard so much complete incompetent rubbish in my 20+ years of reading IT related news!
 
The only part that's correct is Windows does get upset if you change too much hardware but then anyone with a clue would reinstall Windows if you're going to do something as major as change the motherboard (unless you are using the same model but if you were doing that then Windows wouldn't be likely to complain in the first place).
 
ricky1981 said:
The only part that's correct is Windows does get upset if you change too much hardware but then anyone with a clue would reinstall Windows if you're going to do something as major as change the motherboard (unless you are using the same model but if you were doing that then Windows wouldn't be likely to complain in the first place).
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But the MAC address!!1111oneone...
 
Im just confused... Since when is changing a motherboard "Hardware Hackery"?

I see no hacks involved in taking one out, putting a new one in.


It reminded me of people who see someones facebook logged in, write something on it and then say they've "Hacked them". Grinds my gears.
 
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