The best way to run a hidden service: one or two computers?

[Michael Gomboc]

*Use the macchanger utility.  Make sure you write down your original MAC
first, in case you need to switch back to it later.*


There is need to remember the mac address because it will be resetted on
start up!
So if you don't put that in a start up script, after the next boot you will
have again the real mac address.


Regards,
Michael




2010/9/24 Robert Ransom <rransom.8774 at gmail.com>

> On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:34:05 -0400
> hikki at Safe-mail.net wrote:
>
> > Robert Ransom:
> >
> > > Also, if you haven't bothered to change your MAC address, an attacker
> > > with any UID can read it using ifconfig; your hardware manufacturers
> > > may have kept records of where the device(s) with that MAC address were
> > > shipped.
> >
> > I have heard of these attacks, like an attacker reading off your MAC
> > address and even hardware serial numbers. I should be safe regarding
> > serial numbers, but I am some concerned about the MAC address.
> >
> > It would be very nice to know how to change the MAC address so it says
> > something different when you run the ifconfig utility. Could you, or
> anyone,
> > please help me with that? I'm using Linux.
>
> Use the macchanger utility.  Make sure you write down your original MAC
> first, in case you need to switch back to it later.
>
>
> Robert Ransom
>



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