Hide Your Ass, Change Your MAC
Manually
ifconfig wlan0 down ifconfig wlan0 hw ether f1:a7:12:34:1b:c1 ifconfig wlan0 up
With macchanger
ifconfig wlan0 down # print your MAC macchanger -s wlan0 # set your MAC macchanger -m 11:22:33:44:55:66 wlan0 # set to a random vendor, random ID macchanger -A wlan0 # set to your physical vender, random ID macchanger -a wlan0 # set to a totally random value macchanger -r wlan0 # uh this is gonna stand out: no vendor match! # also, check your MAC afterwards - some implementations # just do a simple increment by 1 # reset to your physical MAC macchanger -p wlan0 # wanna see a list of vendors? macchanger -l # don't forget to bring the interface back up ifconfig wlan0 up
There, that’ll teach you to be too noisy with your scans. Don’t do default scans from within other tools like Armitage; do an nmap -T2 instead. Getting shunned from the network for an hour or three sux.