Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot 20160818

[greatgnu]

> A website you are accessing on the internet (like, say, fsf.org) has no  
access to your MAC address. The place you're connecting to from would be able  
to know it so a better way to say it might be that "Since it is a unique  
identifier, network access points can track you from one the other." This is  
the case as long as you're connected to the access point, regardless of  
whether or not you are actually making use of the internet. But anyway, you  
seem to be missing my point.

That's correct. You only have to concern yourself with your MAC address if  
you do not wish the local network administrator to be able to identify you.  
MAC addresses do not cross router boundaries, so anything outside of your LAN  
will never see it.
I was just providing a link to macchanger, that would have prevented what you  
described previously: "Two libreboot people doing that meet up, use the same  
network, and get their network interfaces shutdown because duplicate MAC  
addresses were found on the network."