Regina Vanderbilt: > I refer to your call for testing the MAC address spoofing feature at > https://tails.boum.org/news/spoof-mac/index.en.html > > I have some questions for you: > > (1) Suppose I use Tails with MAC address spoofing feature in a room at a > hotel. > My connection to the internet is via a LAN cable, NOT wireless.
In this scenario, are you using your own laptop or a computer from the hotel? > (a) Will using Tails with such a feature disable the hotel's network device > leading to all its guests unable to surf the internet? I'm not sure to understand what you are referring to here... But I doubt this could happen. > (b) Will the hotel's IT management be able to detect someone is messing up > with > their network device's MAC address? That could happen if you spoof the MAC address of a computer from the hotel. That's why we still allow the user to decide not to spoof. We haven't written the full user documentation for that feature, but that will be one of our concerns while writing it. Note that if you'd unplug the cable from the hotel computer to plug in your laptor, similarly, an unknown MAC address would appear on the network. And I bet this could already be quite usual in such an hotel setup. What could happen is that you could be blocked access to the network by the fact of having an unknown MAC address on that network. > (2) Will MAC address spoofing work with IP v6 protocol? All IPv6 traffic is dropped by Tails for the moment, so that's not an issue. > (3) On the web page, it is written: " > MAC spoofing is enabled by default in this test ISO. You can change this with > a > startup option." > > What is the exact term used for this startup option? Is it macchanger? Or is > it > macspoofing? This is an option from Tails Greeter, the set of graphical menus after the initial boot. You have to choose "More options...", and then it's there. > (I clicked on the hyperlinked startup option and was taken to a page that > does > not detail what the specific term for the option is.) Yes, because for the moment it sends you to the documentation of the current version, that doesn't have this option.
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