How to change MAC address in Ubuntu?

          This blog is about how you can change MAC address of your computer on Ubuntu operating system. Generally we think that MAC address is unique identity, it's true using that your device is identified on the network. IP address may changed dynamically network to network (by DHCP or static ip allocation). But MAC address can be changed, on Ubuntu operating system you can easily do that. No need to download anything extra.

          Now you are thinking that "Why we need to change our MAC address?". The reason behind that is if network is restricted for some MAC address or for registered users then you are not able to access the network. This situation generally we face in college campus. If you wanna to access it without register your device then you need to change MAC address to a registered device's MAC address. You can get it from your friend who has registered their device on that network.

Steps:

1)   Open the "Network Connections" from Settings or directly by pressing Super (or windows) key.

2)   Now select a network for which you wanna to change MAC address. Press Edit button.

3)   In image Device MAC address shows your original MAC address. Now below this row, there is Cloned MAC address which is initially blank. Enter new MAC address in proper format and press Save button. So you are ready with new MAC address for this network connection.

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Hope this information will help you.

I would really appreciate your feedback, suggestions, requests and ideas.

Thank You.

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Change IP address and location of your computer using "Tor Browser"

          This post is about how you can change IP address and location of your computer by one click. Many times we require to change IP address for different purpose and also location (country) nedd to be changed. Sometimes you require to browse internet anonymously or securely without sending your identity. Most important thing is you can also open restricted sites like 'Facebook' in college. For this purpose "Tor Browser" is required. In this post i will demonstrate it using tor browser. You can download it from here.

          Tor (originally short for The Onion Router) is free software for enabling online anonymity. Using Tor makes it more difficult to trace Internet activity, including "visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages and other communication forms", back to the user and is intended to protect users' personal privacy, freedom, and ability to conduct confidential business by keeping their internet activities from being monitored.

Steps:

1)   Go to TorBrowser and download 'Tor Browser Bundle' as par your platform (windows 7, Ubuntu, etc...).

2)   For windows, downloaded file is in .exe format. Just double click on it, it will ask for location to extract files. After selecting location press 'Extract'. On completion of operation a folder named 'TorBrowser' is created.

3)   Now open that folder and run 'Start Tor Browser.exe' It will start the process to connect Tor Network. After established tor connection it will shows a window like this

4)   One browser window will pop-up automatically looking like Firefox browser. It is Tor Browser. It shows IP address of current connection.

5)   Now you ready to browse internet securely. You can browse internet like a normal browser.

Best Feature:

• In One click IP address and location can be changed. To do that click on "Use a new Identity" in connected Tor window. Within few second current browser will close and new one will open with new identity.

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Hope this information will help you.

I would really appreciate your feedback, suggestions, requests and ideas.

Thank You.

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