Is it possible to change MAC address??

[viktor9_-8]

HI.
I stay at home for students (I am on college), there are lot of people and someone was changing the password of the router(I did't). So I went in 192.168.0.1 I see the password and I was using the internet that others couldn't. I want to change my MAC address because the owner of this home will call police ( or whatever ) and he said the one has changed the password will be punished. I obviously didn't change the password so I want to protect my self with changing the IP address and MAC address. And for my android too.

 

[Barty1884]

The MAC address itself can't be changed (at least not easily) as it's stored at on the NIC's ROM.
They can be flashed to be changed, but it's not easy.

A MAC address can be 'spoofed' at a software level, to appear as another MAC address, but on a hardware level, under scrutiny, it hasn't changed.


While even a software level would be sufficient for the threat you perceive, ultimately, I wouldn't worry about it.

Even if you *did* change somebodies Wifi password, I don't actually believe that's illegal in & off itself, in most juristictions anyway - there are precedents set in some regions though*. The fact you could access the Wifi and had the ability to do so, is the owners security concern - and I'd expect the policy to tell them so.

Unless you broke into someones house in order to use their Wifi, I don't believe you've actually broken any law in most places AND, even if you did, I doubt it's a case any police department would seriously consider pursuing.


*Of course, if you used this access for illegal purposes, that's an entirely different situation.