On 4/5/20, Catacombs <ggg...@gmail.com> wrote: > And what the ISP sees after I start a Qube? > > How can I see what my MAC is on a receiving website. Documentation suggests > that it would see a spoofed MAC. But that spoofed MAC needs to be > unpredictable and look normal.
Nobody but your local router will ever see your MAC address. If your machine is behind a firewall then they will only see the IP address of your cable modem or firewall, depending on how you connect to the Internet. Very likely you have no control over the IP address that your Internet provider assigned to your own equipment. People who spoof/randomize their MAC address are generally concerned with use-cases where the need to connect to a public WiFi where the MAC address is announced on that untrusted WiFi router such as at an internet cafe or coffee shop. In that case randomization of the MAC can help to somewhat hide your identity, or at least make it less predictable as to which MAC address connection is actually yours. Any logging of session would only have captured some random MAC address which is not in any way tied to your physical WiFi card NIC. If you care about your assigned IP address being visible to the websites that you visit then you should look into setting up a VPN, in which case your address on the internet will always appear as a random address at your VPN provider, or one of the hosts that they rent for network services. In other words, it will never be your own IP address, or internet providers, but rather one that is shared with many thousands of other people on a rotational basis. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CAJ5FDnjG8sXOqKmf7YjqYTf6ga3JLw5U9fSdEyudK8sKa_-85Q%40mail.gmail.com.
