On 09/24/2010 03:10 PM, Robert Ransom wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:34:05 -0400 > hi...@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
Try the following by hand: sudo ifconfig eth1 hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 # make this something believable All the best, Jake *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
