[liberationtech] Randomize MAC of Android phone?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 04:53:41PM -0700, coderman wrote:

> this works for most wifi devices if you have root; just modify init
> scripts to ifconfig hw ether a random mac (you can do this in shell).
> don't delegate something critical like this to an arbitrary app, which
> is invoked much later in the start up sequence.

Yeah, if you could randomize IMEI and IMSI just as easily, that'd be great.
 
> any of the apps which mask the MAC via intercepted calls to
> Java/Android APIs will do nothing to hide your MAC on the network,
> like you desire.