Why proxies are dangerous for real hackers
I've read some articles here and there, and a few of totse.com
It has come to my attention that many of these anyonymous proxy sites are acutally owned and run by the federal government. I'm not exactly sure which ones, but that brings up a lot of issues for hackers. Point and simple: if your just trying to get past a school filter, you're safe, for the most part, because the gov't couldn't care less. But if your proxy chaining, gearing up to do some actual stuff to someone (with malicious intent) then watch your back, 'cause if it gets serious, those proxies you used most likely are owned by the alphabet boys (FBI, CIA, etc.) and they will nab you.
Just some friendly advice:
If your serious, make a prog to change your MAC address very fast (in the milliseconds), connect to trusted proxies run by people you know, or make your own.
facinating....MAC spoofing?
How does a web user spoof a MAC address. All WiFi hardware I have seen has the MAC address programed into its flash memory.
I have yet to see an article on a single peice of WiFi hardware that has been hacked, letting the user/hacker get at that flash memory to alter the MAC address.
In most cases, that MAC address will be a hard coded part of the firmware program that makes that radio transciever act as a WiFi device. Thus the MAC address is not just six bytes of raw hex code,
but it is in the data strings portion of the firmware with lots of other data, and with the finishing touch being a Twos Complement Sum Total of all the firmware code and data. The hacker also needs to know where that sum code is, and what variant of sum code is used, so it too can be modified or the Wifi device wont boot up.