Then make it lie. Spoofing is a thing that sometimes works!
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thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 3 weeks agowhat if th government prohibits your ISP from initilizing your routers MAC address because its not one on an approved list?
ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
teft@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Routers are not modems.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Every broadband connection I’ve had looks at the mac address of whatever is behind the modem, the modem essentially passes it through.
teft@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
No it doesn’t. Go learn about networking, the OSI model, and ARP tables if you believe that.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Be less of an asshole, it’s free. I’ve been sniffing packets from cable modems since the 90s. I even remember the mac address of my first network card - 00a0cc52cac7, because mediaone gave out persistent hostnames based on your mac address before they were bought by at&t. I once putty’d into my machine from Katmandu just because I could. Incidentally, when I called at&t support to find out if this would continue, their support rep had no idea what I was talking about, and after I mentioned mac addresses, he suggested I call apple.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So the FCC won’t let me be, or let me be me, so let me see…they try to shut down the internet on my pc, but it would be so empty without me!
LucidNightmare@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
Made me chuckle in these dark times. Cheers!