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February 26, 2006
Spoofing Your Mac Addresses
Now that we all know how to sniff packets, we might as well know how to trick a network into thinking we're someone else via MAC address spoofing- on Mac OS X this can be done by:
sudo ifconfig en0 ether 00:01:02:03:04:05
Now you can pretend to be anybody or even a router! Note this is only for the ethernet card. To spoof your airport mac address look here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aspoof/
To learn what kind of devious things you can do read this excellent pdf:
http://home.jwu.edu/jwright/papers/wlan-mac-spoof.pdf
more information on how to do this on other operating systems here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address
Posted by dnolen at February 26, 2006 11:06 PM
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