Change your MAC address with a shell script (2019)

Re:Change your MAC address with a shell script (2019) by colechristensen on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:31AM (#26064148)

Bluetooth and wifi mac spoofing is pretty common, both when scanning and connecting. Both iOS and android do it to certain degrees.

It does indeed boost privacy as wireless networks in public places have been trying to track phones this way for a while now.

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Re:Change your MAC address with a shell script (2019) by userbinator on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:12AM (#26064659)

I don't know how it is now, but I remember a lot of generic/no-name Androids using the Mediatek platform would have random MAC addresses (which change every time you re-enable WiFi) because the manufacturer didn't bother writing a fixed one, so the firmware automatically generates a random one to use.

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Re:Change your MAC address with a shell script (2019) by kiseleon on Monday February 08, 2021 @11:52AM (#26066969)

My Pixel 4 uses a different mac every time it connects to a wifi network by default. You can disable it per-network.

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