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Malware can hack your MAC Address, but nothing (or very little) masks your browser fingerprint.

My whole point here is that changing your MAC doesn't really afford you any privacy. All they have to do is get the record of the browser fingerprint, and have the physical computer in their possession (meaning they've seized it), in order to prove that a particular computer did a specific, presumably illegal computer activity (let's say it was credit card fraud on eBay, to keep things as non-controversial as possible). If you were on the Jury and the Prosecutor said that the FBI determined there was a 1 in 5 million chance that someone else's computer browser did illegal computer activity 'X', would YOU vote for acquittal? My point here is that they don't need the MAC Address to prove it was you. One article said this was one method the FBI used (malware) to definitively prove that a particular computer did illegal activity 'X'.īut browser fingerprinting is a much more reliable and easy way to do the exact same thing. I've done some research and have found several articles, and forum posts that say that both Java, and Java Script, and maybe ActiveX can be hacked so that a website you visit will force your machine to violate security protocols and deliver your MAC Address to the website running the hacked malware scripts. It's not supposed to be shared outside of your internal (home, or business) network. First thing I learned is that the MAC is only supposed to be an 'internal network only' identifier. I've experimented around a learned a few things about changing the MAC.

I think you actually CAN put 'anything' in there.Ģ) I'm curious as to why you want to change your MAC. This is in response to the person that thought that there might be some restrictions on what alphanumeric characters you can use. I've never found a string of characters that would not be accepted. Find the 'Properties' section of the wireless adapter and look around until you find the place where you manually set your MAC. 1) Changing the wireless MAC is no different than changing the LAN MAC.

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