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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: music101 on September 21, 2013, 02:23 pm

Title: Trying to keep prying eyes out of my computer
Post by: music101 on September 21, 2013, 02:23 pm
Hello all - I saw a post in another thread that I posted below.

"Good work mate, next project for you is how to spoof your mac address and set up VM isolation on your computer using Virtual Box ;) I'm being serious by the way." ~samesamebutdifferent

Why is mac spoofing important and what is vm isolation?
Title: Re: Trying to keep prying eyes out of my computer
Post by: Yoda on September 21, 2013, 04:10 pm
Hit up the security forum, lots to read there. 

Your mac address is like a unique serial number on your network card.   So if you did some illegal shit, you obviously wouldn't want that number associated with said illegal shit.

VM... Virtual machine.  It allows you to run an OS within your OS... so like if you're using the OS in the VM to do crazy shit, and downloaded a virus, it would be contained within that VM OS(hopefully).  Which you can then toss out and reload a fresh one. 
Title: Re: Trying to keep prying eyes out of my computer
Post by: General Gao on September 21, 2013, 04:26 pm
Another good trick is often times you can just change the MAC address of the machine. It really wont effect its function too much if it all if its MAC address is changed. Obviously use strictly TOR or VPNs for illegal activities.