MEWU - Scene 8 ... Change your Identity !!!

When we do "experiments" sometimes are need to hide ... or say more softly , change our MAC address. And for this , Ubuntu has very hand tool, called MAC Changer.

But first some words about MAC address... Media Access Control a.k.a. MAC is a unique identifier used to identify network adapters weather it is a Ethernet or WiFi or any Bluetooth , all networking hardware has unique ID , and with who's help those devices --- and so --- "USER" of that device can be identified. This method is used in very basic security schemes that includes mobile networks too !!!

Well, i don't wanna ask why would you ever think to change your MAC address but i know there are always "reasons" to change it for sometime. There are number of ways to change it ,

one method is ...

go to your termainal and write ,

sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces

it will open interface file of network , it should look like ,

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

then simply add a line after these two lines , and it will look like this ,

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
hwaddress ether 01:02:03:04:05:06

where 01:02:03:04:05:06 is a FAKE MAC address...

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

and you will see your "all new" identity.