Even if outside devices from non-students spoof a legitimate, student-registered MAC, the packets being sent over the network can still be captured, opened, and the user agents, and other system identifiers can be observed.
REASON FOR MAC ADDRESS MAC
Unless of course on your home WiFi or something else you are using MAC address as a method to identify yourself as MAC address can be easily spoofed.įor a school, having all student device MAC addresses (unique hardware identifier) is a way to filter out a lot of unwanted traffic from the LAN. So, I would ask why do you want my MAC address, giving out the MAC address is not going to really affect you. If you use Tor, they will be able to say you used Tor, but not the content. They can get a history of MAC & IP address from logs and their NAT can keep a history of IP Address & Ports and map back to the MAC address. They can do this already without asking for your MAC, just giving them the MAC address allows them to map it to a individual easier. So from a security measure this is not great. I can then spoof your MAC address quite easily. It's not really because I can obtain your MAC address if both of us are in the same Starbucks and on the same WiFi. They may think locking down WiFi to known MAC addresses is a good security measure.
Any device connecting to the WiFi will reveal their MAC address, based on the ARP protocol. I think you should ask why they want to use the MAC address, not necessarily for privacy reasons "why do you need the MAC Address?" I think it's a reasonable question to ask them.įirstly, they will have MAC addresses of all the individuals who connect to the WiFi.
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