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4) IP Address / MAC Profiling: I don't know how heavily Jagex uses IP's anymore.. But, I have seen this thrown around multiple different places so I personally think it's best to error on the caution. I think Mac Profiling may be more designated for gold farmers based on the following scenario: Student A plays runescape in his university a lot, but he doesn't bot. Student B, and C, are gold farmers at this university. Jagex investigates and finds that student B and C are non-legit, while student A doesn't appear to be botting. Jagex wants to flag this IP, but would player A still get flagged? It's not rocket science to make some reports about IP addresses and what Mac they may be using... I can't say for certain on the Mac thing, nor the IP because I do not have first-hand experience with it.
MACs are ripped off at it's first hop in the routing process. For them to get your MAC address, they'd have to have something sitting between your router and the wall to sniff that MAC address off the header.
Is my MAC address public when browsing the Internet? read this answer to a question that was asked about MAC addresses.
Can a MAC address be traced? - Ask Leo! this is also a good read.
Just a huge common misconception.
I just wanted to throw that out there.