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From: Cori on 3 Jan 2010 17:56
On Jan 3, 2:17 pm, Tim McNamara <tim...(a)bitstream.net> wrote:

> It can't have been that under any version.  A MAC address has nothing to
> do with the IP address of a Mac (note the capitalizations differences:  
> MAC does not equal Mac(intosh)).

Yeah, I figured that when I looked through a lot of such applications
and found many only for PCs. Presumably PC users know this, but...how
very confusing when trying to find something specifically for
disguising a Mac!

In answer to Tom's question, about the message board thing: he has
the idea that if "they" can learn from his ISP what region he is from
AND that he is a Macintosh user, "they" might figure out it is *him.*
And, not even touching that subject, it's a whole new decade now and
just a good idea to be as anonymous as possible online.

Cori
From: JF Mezei on 3 Jan 2010 18:24
For the purposes of ending this thread (as opposed to helping someone
evade blocks): PROXY SERVER.

Google should tell him more about it.
From: D Finnigan on 3 Jan 2010 18:35
Cori wrote:
>
> AND that he is a Macintosh user, "they" might figure out it is *him.*
>

Does he visit a PC forum? ;-)
From: Tom Harrington on 3 Jan 2010 19:07
In article
<a95cc475-9f56-4bfb-84ad-c45566d64e01(a)21g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>,
Cori <cmashieldscapting(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> In answer to Tom's question, about the message board thing: he has
> the idea that if "they" can learn from his ISP what region he is from
> AND that he is a Macintosh user, "they" might figure out it is *him.*
> And, not even touching that subject, it's a whole new decade now and
> just a good idea to be as anonymous as possible online.

Yes, but why is he trying to get into this web site when the site
managers have specifically decided they do not want him there? In what
way is this even remotely ethical? If they don't want him on their
site, what the hell gives him the right to try and sneak in?

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: Kevin McMurtrie on 3 Jan 2010 19:34
In article <CtqdnVWgDafTh9zWnZ2dnUVZ8oVi4p2d(a)brightview.co.uk>,
Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote:

> On 03/01/2010 22:17, Tim McNamara wrote:
> > In article
> > <a0e5a66a-5eb9-4a75-b31b-7c35f0da6ef8(a)j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
> > Cori<cmashieldscapting(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> There is an Application called ChangeMAC which is very much like what
> >> was recommended before--to disguise from the PC users that you are
> >> using a Mac. Trouble is, it can't have been that, or if it was it
> >> was an earlier version I now can't find, as the current version is
> >> for OS X 10.5 or higher.
> >
> > It can't have been that under any version. A MAC address has nothing to
> > do with the IP address of a Mac (note the capitalizations differences:
> > MAC does not equal Mac(intosh)).
>
> It's the ethernet address of the interface, basically a 48-bit number.
> I'm recalling that the first 24 bits indicate the vendor and the other
> 24 bits were unique to the interface as the vendor built them.
>
> Vendor 24-bits originally issued by Xerox but someone else now, I think.

The MAC address is used for local automatic routing so it doesn't travel
very far. The '-e' option in tcpdump shows it in traffic.
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