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ifconfig <iface> hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:00

• secure 15y ago
  By accident, one of the el-cheapo motherboards I used about 6 years ago ran with MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00. Interestingly, this wasn’t a problem — I could still communicate with my router and didn’t even notice this for a long time. But then I tried to communicate with my father’s IRIX machine, and we couldn’t get it to work. Until we realized the misconfiguration :).
  • seanp2k2 15y ago
    Interestingly, using a WPA or WEP key of all zeroes breaks lots of cracking algorithms and thus is arguably more secure :)
    • Natsu 15y ago
      Care to elaborate?
      • dspillett 15y ago
        Perhaps a lot of brute-force try-them-all routines skip the all zeros option, and others consider an all zeros result to be invalid (internally mapped to a "no match" result or so forth). A truer security through obscurity idea I can't imagine though so if that is the case "arguably more secure" is very arguable!
    • jcitme 15y ago
      How so?