In theory.....

[SteveBuscemi]

By using a some kind of wireless utility to pick up wireless internet signals, wouldn't you have a sure fire way of not having your computer tracked to you other than an anonymous user feeding off of someone else's internet signal?

 

[KSoD]

No. The MAC address which is registered to your network card and hardwired to the card can be traced back to you. So even if you were feeding off of someone else's signal there is still a way that they could catch you by your MAC address.

 

[Lexluethar]

No. The MAC address which is registered to your network card and hardwired to the card can be traced back to you. So even if you were feeding off of someone else's signal there is still a way that they could catch you by your MAC address.

Up, it is hardwired into the card. Literally, in fact if you look at the numbers certain manufactureres get certain MAC addresses.

The only way of getting 'around' being tracked is using a trojan or utility to take over someones computer and use that computer to do the surfing you don't want to be caught doing.

 

[SteveBuscemi]

No. The MAC address which is registered to your network card and hardwired to the card can be traced back to you. So even if you were feeding off of someone else's signal there is still a way that they could catch you by your MAC address.

Is it possible to be tracked back to 'you' or would it just be tracked back to a laptop using this internet signal?
I've never registered a MAC Address, are you required to register your own information before you can use a wireless utility?

 

[KSoD]

Well it would be traced back to the laptop you are using. Since you are using it that would lead to you.

You dont have to register the MAC address. It is automaticcly registered. The router has to know where to send the signal when a request is sent out. So if you are connected to the router and request even Google.com that is a request.

The router has to register the MAC so that it knows that the request to go to Google.com was from the machine you are using and not any other machine connected to that router. So therefor the MAC is already registered so that once the request is processed and the packets are recieved it knows where to send them to.

There is no way to get around this. It has to be done in order for you to send and recieve data from the router. Without it the requests you send out would never come back to you.

So no matter what there is a way to trace it back to the system that you are using to connect to the network with. The ways around it require things that are against our forum rules to discuss.