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How To Change Your MAC address (Snow Leopard)

How To Change Your MAC address (Snow Leopard)
In this tutorial, I will show you how to "spoof" your Media Access Control address or MAC. Some great (and questionable) examples of uses would be allowing yourself onto MAC filtered networks, such as Hotel wifi logins. Please use this method at your own risk, I am not responsible for your actions.
 
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Step 1What is a MAC address?

What is a MAC address?
    A MAC address has nothing to do with Apple or it's computers, but in fact, is part of any device that connects to the internet. The MAC address is assigned to your internet card, and is the one sure-fire way to detect your computer and log it. Well that's the case unless you spoof your MAC address, and becomes anonymous. (this does not mean any of your connections are any more secure, it just means that if someone checks back in their network tables the MAC address of the computer you have will be a fake one).
    The MAC address also identifies who manufactured your computer. So if you spoof it, you can make your computer appear to be a different model, or even appear to be a model of router.
    A MAC address consists of five hexadecimal values (e.g 12-34-56-78-9A-BC). Hexadecimal is a number format used widely by computers and programming languages. Instead of being a base ten number system like the one we are used to, hex works on a base 16 system. And how could that be? Well hex uses letters as well as numbers; 1 through 9 and A through F. For instance, the hex number sequence: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B 1C 1D ect...
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All of my life I have been interested in learning the way things work. It was always hard for me to use something and just accept that it works without taking it apart and seeing what makes it tick. D...
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