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Re:Randomize your WiFi MAC address on Ubuntu by throwmenow_0140 on Sunday December 03, 2017 @07:18PM (#15840502)
> I only know about mac whitelisting in protected networks managed by wary administrators.

Wouldn't make any sense for properly securing a network. As an attacker you could just create an evil twin (same ESSID), let some students connect to it and just use their mac addresses (and even drop their connections when they try to use the university wifi).

Edit: You don't even necessarily need an evil twin to get their mac addresses. You only have to listen to the wifi traffic and get some - even encrypted data packets still contain the raw mac address as far as I know. airodump-ng is the perfect tool to do that.

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Re:Randomize your WiFi MAC address on Ubuntu by heartbreak on Monday December 04, 2017 @10:41AM (#15844651)
I didn't say it made any sense :) This is how I was able to get my Playstation connected up in my dorm. I set my laptop's MAC to my Playstation's, then got my laptop authenticated using their tool, switched the MAC back, and the Playstation would connect up without issue.
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