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Name: missdummy
Date: August 25, 2008 at 04:31:22 Pacific
OS: vista
CPU/Ram: 2.4 g
Product: vaio
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Hi,
Is it possible for a person to figure out my mac adress through a gmail chat? If yes, i need to know how ? Also i was wondering if i can change my mac address.

MissDummy



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Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: August 25, 2008 at 04:57:34 Pacific
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MAC address? Nope. Publicly displayed IP address? Perhaps.

The MAC address is a physical address hard-coded into the NIC. The only way to change it is change the NIC.

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What a shame
To have to beg you to see
We’re not all the same
What a shame" - Shinedown


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Response Number 2
Name: jefro
Date: August 25, 2008 at 14:53:45 Pacific
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Kind of depends. The mac could be found out possibly. Not sure it matters. There are ways to clone and spoof mac address.

It has little to do with security. Why would you care about the mac address?

"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10


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