Is there is any way to find MAC address of stolen laptop? I previously use my Facebook and email account on the machine. Can I extract my MAC address from email of Facebook account. Give me technical idea.
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The MAC address does not leave the local network of the laptop. If the laptop starts communicating, and is behind a router (as it must be to get Internet access) the moment the traffic passes the router, the MAC is lost (routers forward packets, so the outgoing traffic of yours from the router actually has the router's WAN MAC).
Websites generally use cookies to tell users apart, and don't need the MAC address. It would be very unusual (and probably not possible unless using a Java, ActiveX, or other custom plugin) for a website to try to record your hardware MAC addresses, and even more unusual for it to allow you to see the MAC addresses it's collecting without a court order.
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