<i>Use the macchanger utility. Make sure you write down your original MAC<br>
first, in case you need to switch back to it later.</i><br><br><br>There is need to remember the mac address because it will be resetted on start up!<br>So if you don't put that in a start up script, after the next boot you will have again the real mac address.<br>
<br><br>Regards,<br>Michael<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/24 Robert Ransom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rransom.8774@gmail.com">rransom.8774@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:34:05 -0400<br>
<div class="im">hikki@Safe-mail.net wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">> Robert Ransom:<br>
><br>
> > Also, if you haven't bothered to change your MAC address, an attacker<br>
> > with any UID can read it using ifconfig; your hardware manufacturers<br>
> > may have kept records of where the device(s) with that MAC address were<br>
> > shipped.<br>
><br>
> I have heard of these attacks, like an attacker reading off your MAC<br>
> address and even hardware serial numbers. I should be safe regarding<br>
> serial numbers, but I am some concerned about the MAC address.<br>
><br>
> It would be very nice to know how to change the MAC address so it says<br>
> something different when you run the ifconfig utility. Could you, or anyone,<br>
> please help me with that? I'm using Linux.<br>
<br>
</div>Use the macchanger utility. Make sure you write down your original MAC<br>
first, in case you need to switch back to it later.<br>
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Robert Ransom<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Michael Gomboc<br><a href="http://www.viajando.at">www.viajando.at</a><br>pgp-id: 0x5D41FDF8<br>