Saw this too... but the student recently bought this Macbook Pro. We are talking to our contacts at Apple... Let's see what they come up with...
-----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hao, Justin C Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 12:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses I just found an old apple discussion thread from 2008 where another user claims he received this Mac straight from the factory http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1775581 This could be some kind of manufacturing defect? Unless by chance your user has the exact MacBook mentioned in the thread --- Justin Hao On Sep 24, 2010, at 4:17 PM, "Cortes, Diana" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thought I'd share some interesting news... The student was able to recover > the box where her Macbook Pro came in and indeed the Airport ID printed on > the box is 00:11:22:33:44:55 > > Diana Cortes, CISSP, CWNA > University of Miami > IT - Telecommunications > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Williams > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 7:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses > > Not sure if there is software out there for the mac to change this > automatically, if you just do an "ifconfig en1 ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx", the > mac address will change, but ONLY stay until you reboot the machine, then it > changes back. You have to put that command into a script under > /system/library/starupitems/ and then run > sudo chmod 700 script.sh > sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook > /System/Library/StartupItems/script.sh > > to get it to stick permanently. So it seems to me like people are probably > doing this intentionally. > > Greg Williams > IT Security Principal > University of Colorado at Colorado Springs > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hao, Justin C > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 4:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses > > it does show up occasionally, and as far as i can tell, this is because > users are following on-line tutorials for cracking WEP passwords (several of > them reference changing your mac interface to "00:11:22:33:44:55" manually > in the instructions to setup traffic sniffing. If your users are using > these on a production network you may want to follow up as they may have > inadvertently changed their mac address and have no realized they need to > change it back. > > or you could be mischievous and block that mac address completely and let > them come forwards to have their machine fixed. I don't believe this is a > bug, but more user-inflicted. > > ----- > Justin Hao > CCNA > Network Engineer, ITS Networking > The University of Texas at Austin > [email protected] > ----- > > On Sep 20, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Cortes, Diana wrote: > >> Has anyone encountered any Macbooks with the following MAC addresses: > 00:11:22:33:44:55? We believe this may be an Apple bug as we have found 2 on > our campus already with the exact same MAC address. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Diana Cortes, CISSP, CWNA >> University of MIami >> IT-Telecommunications >> >> ********** >> Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
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