Thanks for the summary. On 26/11/15 20:52, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > Tails does verify, that randomly chosen MAC does not equal the real MAC > by chance. > > From tails-spoof-mac [1] (code: [A]) > >> # There is a 1/2^24 chance macchanger will randomly pick the real MAC >> # address. We try to making it really unlikely repeating it up to >> # three times. Theoretically speaking this leaks information about the >> # real MAC address at each occasion but actually leaking the real MAC >> # address will be more serious in practice.
Not a leak, but serious and much more likely would be MAC collisions in larger third party network segment environments. Happen to choose a MAC address of a fellow DHCP client? Someone could be informed by their OS of a MAC collision, and such an event would be likely logged. Happen to choose a MAC address of a network gateway and/or DHCP server? Well, that's fun for everyone ... Shine, Adam.
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