Re: [tor-talk] Mac?

[Eugen Leitl <eugen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 01:43:13PM +0200, Andre Risling wrote:

> I've forgotten already if someone answered this....but with the 
> free WiFi connections do they typically get your MAC address?
> 
> I've noticed in Ubuntu that when the computer is booted up and before I
> connect to the web the computer needs the "keyring" password.  No matter
> whether I try to change my  mac address that stupid keyring thing won't
> let me do anything until it gets the "answer it wants".  So the password
> is entered and the computer connects the web (actually just to the
> router to get the wireless signal) and then I change the MAC address.  
> If I were trying to hide my mac address, no matter where I am, I have to
> assume my real mac address would go out over the web or to the router
> before I could change my address.
> 
> Is that correct?

Your MAC, being an OSI Layer 2 feature, is not propagated 
beyond the first router (unless you use IPv6, which
can embed MAC information within the /64 local part
of the address -- Tor doesn't do IPv6 yet) or malware 
on your system sends that information).

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