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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: s1llyn355 on June 01, 2013, 02:49 am
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Does Tor change your mac address ?
And so ... am i wasting my time with mac changing utilities ?
Thanks to anyone that replies. :)
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Does Tor change your mac address ?
And so ... am i wasting my time with mac changing utilities ?
Thanks to anyone that replies. :)
I might be wrong, but I don't think so. Liberte' Linux distro does though and I've come to like it much more than accessing Tor through Vidalia on Windows. If you're accessing at home your ISP will know you're router id - randomizing the MAC address probably doesn't really matter.
and thanks for the blockexplorer tip!
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Does Tor change your mac address ?
And so ... am i wasting my time with mac changing utilities ?
Thanks to anyone that replies. :)
I might be wrong, but I don't think so. Liberte' Linux distro does though and I've come to like it much more than accessing Tor through Vidalia on Windows. If you're accessing at home your ISP will know you're router id - randomizing the MAC address probably doesn't really matter.
and thanks for the blockexplorer tip!
You're very welcome...
+1 thanks for replying.
The router id... i wonder if that's the MAC address of the router.
Perhaps i can change that. I will research on google.
thanks again.
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Everytime you boot Liberte Linux it automatically randomizes your MAC address, furthermore if you'd like to manually randomize it, type "sudo mac-randomize all" in the console.
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Everytime you boot Liberte Linux it automatically randomizes your MAC address, furthermore if you'd like to manually randomize it, type "sudo mac-randomize all" in the console.
excellent, thanks Deutsche :-)
+1
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Does Tor change your mac address ?
No, that would require Tor or TBB to run as administrator, which would be highly unsafe.
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No tor bundle doesn't do that but as others have said Liberte Linux does, I've used it and it works well.
The only reason I can see for wanting to change your mac address is if you regularly connect to public or unknown networks. Normally your mac would be overwritten by every router between a you and a server, making only your routers ip address available.
You you probably know the Tor bundle masks your ip but it also masks your system details. When you go to a website the host can see your ip and some system details available to your browser. The tor bundle changes both your ip and your system info (aka user_agent info).
Here is what the tor bundle changed my user agent info too:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
That is the user agent info that comes up for me, it is not my real string, I'm using a debian based distro of linux and when using my normal browser the string reflects my actual OS and has much more information to it.
Website hosts can actively monitor traffic to and from there site displaying ip and user agent information for all vistors. Alternatively the author of a website could have php, or any other scripting code, embeded in the page that logs every users ip and user agent info. That is why I always say be caerful of the links you click, not only for your computers safety but your own. Anyway hope my ramblings helped, thanks for reading.