MAC- address is layer- 2 address and it is "staying" into your local network. If you are in a place where the administrator having ip- addresses assigned by dhcp (or manually) always on the same pc, based on the mac, you most probably would like to spoof it so to be different than the expected one. if they use sso though, will be a problem, because when you change your mac- you still will be using your assigned credentials to access the network, and Internet so the admin will know that your computer has different mac. some, even block the macs- which are not "known". as Steve Coleman has mentioned spoofing it in publicly accessible networks will randomize your laptop. if a further check occur, keep in mind that nowadays there are cameras everywhere, and they might show you are using your laptop at certain time, so if the mac cannot be found, I guess there will be more questions then.
On Monday, April 6, 2020 at 10:21:46 AM UTC-4, Steve Coleman wrote: > > On 4/5/20, Catacombs <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > And what the ISP sees after I start a Qube? > > > > How can I see what my MAC is on a receiving website. Documentation > suggests > > that it would see a spoofed MAC. But that spoofed MAC needs to be > > unpredictable and look normal. > > Nobody but your local router will ever see your MAC address. If your > machine is behind a firewall then they will only see the IP address of > your cable modem or firewall, depending on how you connect to the > Internet. Very likely you have no control over the IP address that > your Internet provider assigned to your own equipment. > > People who spoof/randomize their MAC address are generally concerned > with use-cases where the need to connect to a public WiFi where the > MAC address is announced on that untrusted WiFi router such as at an > internet cafe or coffee shop. In that case randomization of the MAC > can help to somewhat hide your identity, or at least make it less > predictable as to which MAC address connection is actually yours. Any > logging of session would only have captured some random MAC address > which is not in any way tied to your physical WiFi card NIC. > > If you care about your assigned IP address being visible to the > websites that you visit then you should look into setting up a VPN, in > which case your address on the internet will always appear as a random > address at your VPN provider, or one of the hosts that they rent for > network services. In other words, it will never be your own IP > address, or internet providers, but rather one that is shared with > many thousands of other people on a rotational basis. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/a041b59f-a8c0-4855-b8a8-47c7d652100c%40googlegroups.com.
