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Re[2]: About War Driving ..
From: Kluge <kluge () kluge org>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 23:05:32 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Roman Shirokov wrote:
Pointless, because the MAC address can be easily sniffed as well as spoofed.Regards Ansgar WiechersEasily sniffed - yes, easily spoofed - hm... I doubt. (also not impossible for experienced cracker)
...also not impossible for anyone who can type 'man ifconfig' either... Here's what I just did on my laptop here 30 seconds ago: root@hostile:~# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A4:C7:F4:C6 inet addr:192.168.1.26 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:402 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:340 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:445776 (435.3 Kb) TX bytes:26399 (25.7 Kb) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300 root@hostile:~# ifconfig eth0 down root@hostile:~# ifconfig eth0 hw ether C0:ff:ee:ee:ee:ee:ee:ee root@hostile:~# ifconfig eth0 up root@hostile:~# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr C0:FF:EE:EE:EE:EE inet addr:192.168.1.26 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:342 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:445968 (435.5 Kb) TX bytes:26567 (25.9 Kb) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300 ...and Voila! My NIC's new MAC address is now C0:FF:EE:EE:EE:EE... Speaking of which, MMmmmm.. coffee-break time. -Kluge --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is sponsored by: ByteCrusher Detect Malicious Web Content and Exploits in Real-Time. Anti-Virus engines can't detect unknown or new threats. LinkScanner can. Web surfing just became a whole lot safer. http://www.explabs.com/staging/promotions/xern_lspro.asp?loc=sfmaildetect ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Re: About War Driving .. Jure Krasovic (Dec 01)
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- Re: About War Driving .. Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Dec 01)
- Re: About War Driving .. ralain (Dec 01)
- Re: About War Driving .. Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Dec 04)
- Re[2]: About War Driving .. Roman Shirokov (Dec 06)
- Re: Re[2]: About War Driving .. Brian Loe (Dec 07)
- Re[2]: About War Driving .. Kluge (Dec 07)
- Re: About War Driving .. Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Dec 04)
- RE: About War Driving .. Adam Rosen (Dec 01)
- Re: About War Driving .. John Kennedy (Dec 01)
- Re: About War Driving .. Dave Moore (Dec 01)
- Re: About War Driving .. Sudev Barar (Dec 01)
- Re: About War Driving .. Robert Szewczyk (Dec 01)
- Re: About War Driving .. gaurav saha (Dec 01)
- Re: About War Driving .. Dave Moore (Dec 04)
- Re: About War Driving .. Steven (Dec 06)
- list moderation (was Re: About War Driving.) Kelly Martin (Dec 07)
- Re: About War Driving .. gaurav saha (Dec 01)