My college network is asking for MAC address of all the devices I want to use for internet access.

If i dont provide them then i can't use the their internet.

Please give some ideas so i can use the internet without giving them my MAC.

1) Purchase a cellphone with a hotspot
2) Drop out
3) Live off campus

Why don't you want to share your MACs?

I'm not sure if I remember correctly, but I think iPhones randomize MAC addresses under some circumstances. Research this, maybe you can find something useful.

Don't expect to win, though. They want to cover their asses in case you get them in trouble. It's a mutual agreement and it's very unlikely that they will ease off, why would they? If you can't agree on common terms, you can't use their service.

Mock a mac and give it to them?

Buy infinite 4g for $5?

My dorm did that, my faculty does that.

It's to ensure some safety - so that nobody comes from outside, connects and do something illegal. And if someone does, they know who let that MAC address in.

Basically, if you want to do something illegal, use McDonald's hotspot, not your college network. :shrugs:

@haze They can just setup a login system for that. Entering macs is painful.
+ Some devices randomize Macs everything they boot

@Konsole you enter the mac once and then have free access, without logging in. I find that better.
Especially since the rest of my uni has a pretty bad password authentication, passwords are predictable and unchangeable.

@haze super "security" idea together with MAC address spoofing. It's exactly why you don't want to register with MAC address because then it's you and not the spoofer whom they'll get to.

@ganjaman only in Europe*

@iamrp macchanger and root (where applicable)

set up a service or w/e to have the MAC be randomized every boot

@Fast-Nop First the spoofer needs to find the correct mac to spoof.
Especially if the connection is wired, not wireless, the thing is more secure than you think.

Yeah, it seems ineffective/pointless for us, security freaks.
Yes, I know one can get someone else's mac when they are together in another network.

I'm talking more about completely random person doing something from within the network, without the stalking and stealing the mac.
And for people already legally using the network pirating software and movies. - Seriously, universities get "pay or we'll sue you" (sometimes from legal trolls, not someone who really had their intellectual property stolen) all the time, they have to cover their asses.
And us, security freaks, know how to cover our tracks, even if we have to give our mac

@haze wired? Seriously? Of course that goes over Wifi because we're in 2019 and e.g. smartphones don't even have an RJ45 jack. And finding a MAC in a Wifi is trivial because WPA2 doesn't encrypt the MAC.

MAC address filtering is not a security feature and has never been. Linking that to the identity is asking for trouble, so the OP is totally right that he doesn't want that shit.

Should you need the services of a good hacker, talk to darkcracker@protonmail.com. dude is good

@Fast-Nop Wow, you've never been in uni dorm, have you? Yes, wired.

You can have your own WiFi AP in your room but it's mac is registered so if anything happens from your subnet, it's your fault. Makes people secure their own WiFi.

Had this in high school (school was under the auspices of the local uni), have this in the current dorm in one of the best technical unis in the country.

Obviously faculty has WiFi (with mac registering, as I already mentioned) but it's less people than the dorm has, can have good signal coverage (because they care, as opposed to dorm when it's only about cheap housing, not really modern comfort), and all that.

@haze well I was in an uni dorm, but back then, Wi-Fi products didn't exist yet. ;-)