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>For example, if you were able to identify the MAC address, and you were unethical, you could just blackmail the "bomber" - whether they are innocent or not. D

>For example, if you were able to identify the MAC address, and you were unethical, you could just blackmail the "bomber" - whether they are innocent or not. Didn't something along the lines of this happen with this with the Boston bombing and /r/, where they named the wrong - and innocent - person? >Also, some devices allow you to reprogram the MAC address so you could in theory use this to blackmail someone as well, or at least get them harassed by the police. According to IEEE[1], that MAC belongs to a Morotola Mobility, LLC. (a Lenovo Company) device. If anyone had a device in the F8E079 family, they would be - rightfully - shitting bricks, right now, for being correlated with it. So, to summarise: No, I don't think anything good (initially) will come of this. Also, it's a family included in macchanger, so that makes it ever-more probable that the mac address has - at some point - been used by someone else. macchanger -l | grep "f8:e0:79" 18898 - f8:e0:79 - Motorola Mobility LLC [1] - https://regauth.standards.ieee.org/standards-ra-web/pub/view.html#registries https://regauth.standards.ieee.org/standards-ra-web/pub/view...

Johnny555 8y ago
If anyone had a device in the F8E079 family, they would be - rightfully - shitting bricks, right now, for being correlated with it. Only if one normally shits bricks about something that's a 1 in 16 million chance of happening. But if someone does know that their MAC OUI is F8E079, they almost certainly know the rest of the MAC so they can rest easily unless it happens to match the published one. Also, it's a family included in macchanger, so that makes it ever-more probable that the mac address has - at some point - been used by someone else. macchanger -l just dumps the list of ~18,000 OUI's known to macchanger, so it doesn't really mean that it's more likely to have been set by someone using macchanger.

Johnny555 8y ago

If anyone had a device in the F8E079 family, they would be - rightfully - shitting bricks, right now, for being correlated with it. Only if one normally shits bricks about something that's a 1 in 16 million chance of happening. But if someone does know that their MAC OUI is F8E079, they almost certainly know the rest of the MAC so they can rest easily unless it happens to match the published one. Also, it's a family included in macchanger, so that makes it ever-more probable that the mac address has - at some point - been used by someone else. macchanger -l just dumps the list of ~18,000 OUI's known to macchanger, so it doesn't really mean that it's more likely to have been set by someone using macchanger.