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Re: WiFi adapter MAC address spoofing

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Thank you. 

On 2020-10-19 13:54, Charles Curley wrote:

> Not all Ethernet or WiFi adapters are capable of changing MAC addresses.
> Back in the early days, all MAC addresses were hard coded because that
> was simpler for manufacturers. It also meant that all MAC addresses were
> unique, so some manufacturers used the MAC address as a serial number
> for their cards. It also meant that you would never have a collision,
> two cards using the same MAC address on the same subnet.
> 
> Now many of them can change MAC addresses. I notice that my iPhone
> under iOS 14 does so routinely (unless told not to) as an anti-tracking
> ruse. A down side of this capability is that a malicious actor could
> use the capability to spoof another device

Well, the strange part is that I am able to spoof the MAC address of the
WiFi adapter by manually running the following line, before bringing up
the adapter: 

ip link set wlp2s0 address 02:01:02:03:04:08

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WiFi adapter MAC address spoofing Xianwen Chen (陈贤文)  <xianwen.chen@gmail.com> - 2020-10-19 15:30 +0200
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    Re: WiFi adapter MAC address spoofing Xianwen Chen (陈贤文)  <xianwen.chen@gmail.com> - 2020-10-19 21:20 +0200

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