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[-] Jamie@jamie.moe 55 points 1 year ago

Last time I went on vacation, the hotel wifi wouldn't let my laptop on for some reason, but my phone was fine. The portal to log in just wouldn't come up on my laptop.

So I took my phone off the wifi and just spoofed my phone's MAC address on the laptop. Did that for the whole week I was there.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I did this once to get on Xbox live cause the Xbox doesn't (or didn't, idk I'm PC now) open the web portal for you to agree to.

So I just changed my hardware address to my laptop's after I went through the portal in a web browser.

No problems. That was the moment I knew I wanted to be a network engineer. The fact that it worked was just so damn cool.

[-] LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

If you've got a VPN running, it won't work. Turned it off and the prompt came right up

[-] Jamie@jamie.moe 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, I don't typically run a VPN.

I didn't think of that at all! Brilliant!

[-] zeroblood@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago

I'll probably forget to check when I get home. Does anyone know if Android randomizes the MAC address on every disconnect/connect with the random MAC option enabled?

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago
[-] grasib@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Not by default. It remembers the MAC for each specific network. This is because sometimes you want to have specific device on the same IP all the time. The DHCP decides this via the MAC.

If you want it truly randomised every time you need to turn on non persistent MAC randomisation in the developer option.

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I've seen that on LineageOS 18 (based on Android 11)

[-] LunaCtld@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

GrapheneOS does this by default as well.

[-] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

my Fairphone 4's android 12 does this too.

it does for me, I'm on project elixir

[-] tinsuke@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Alt: it's a simple spell but quite unbreakable.

[-] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

This reminds me of college. Was downloading movie torrents on my laptop while in class, just made it so it wouldn't go to sleep when you closed the lid. So the IT guys kept kicking me off, so I'd change my MAC and keep going. It got to the point where I did that so much that the IT guys were actually going around campus looking for whoever was doing it. Also I changed my MAC so much it fried the wifi card in my laptop to the point it needed replaced lmao. Good times.

[-] BrainIG@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

How it got fried? Was it running hot all the time?

[-] LunaCtld@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Stupid guess: Maybe the changed mac is written to e.g. an EEPROM and it ran out of write cycles and bugged out then.

[-] MrBakedBeansOnToast@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Isn’t the MAC address fixed to the hardware? Am I growing old?

[-] MrWafflesNBacon@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

It still is if I'm correct but most operating systems have an option to spoof/randomize your MAC address

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

It is, but there are ways to spoof it so your device presents a different one when connecting to a network.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not quite. I'm not really sure but I think the original idea actually was a fixed hardware address but I'm not sure if a lot of devices actually ever implemented it that way because it's simpler (and cheaper) to control it in software. In modern (especially mobile) devices it's actually a security requirement because with a fixed MAC address you could be tracked by other wifi devices.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

With the right software, you can do anything!

[-] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

As the others said that is normally the case but nowadays most computers and mobiles have an option that randomize the MAC addresses on each connection.

These MAC addresses are known as locally-administered address. They look like this:

x2:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
x6:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
xA:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
xE:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

And rarely like this:

x3‑xx‑xx‑xx‑xx‑xx
x7‑xx‑xx‑xx‑xx‑xx
xB‑xx‑xx‑xx‑xx‑xx
xF‑xx‑xx‑xx‑xx‑xx
[-] wisefoolkp@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

I just spent a whole week trying to prevent mac spoofing on my small wisp network network... Still trying...

[-] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

You are the worst kind of person

[-] wisefoolkp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Just trying to live up the villain dream...

[-] exu@feditown.com 2 points 1 year ago

Please don't block Boeing or other funny MAC Adress prefixes. Why wouldn't you believe a 747 was using your network?

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