On 07/03/2017 11:11 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I did this exactly and it worked. The Mac address was changed. But can you 
confirm it is the right way/most Anonymous way of anonymizing mac address, 
because there are some different and very complicated instructions(which I 
can't understand ) on Qubes Official website: 
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/anonymizing-your-mac-address/

How different is this method from the one given in the official website? Is it 
less Anonymous/secure than the official method?
Thanks a lot!


There are problems with older versions of Network Manager improperly reacting to randomization settings (whether its own or coming from systemd), causing the original address to be exposed under some conditions. There is more than one issue with these pre-1.4.2 versions.

So its best to use a recent version of Network Manager that supports randomization properly, then it can be configured directly in a more fine-grained way than systemd parameters allow... a user can decide if they want scan-only randomization or guide the randomization with a MAC bitmask, for example.

The Qubes doc basically amounts to:

1) upgrade template (Debian 9 or Fedora 25 will do)
2) check Network Manager version
3) create a settings file in /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d folder.

The "Configuring Qubes with macchanger" section is a separate method that often fails; it should be disregarded.

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