Find the iPhone MAC address
Aug 5, 2010 - 5 Comments
You can get the MAC address of your iPhone by following these steps:
- Tap on Settings
- Tap on General
- Navigate to and tap on “About”
- Scroll down to “Wi-Fi Address”
- The characters next to Wi-Fi Address are your iPhone MAC address
There’s plenty of reasons you’d need a MAC address from the iPhone, from being able to access certain restricted networks with MAC address filtering to even spoofing a Macs MAC address in order to use WiFi that’s intended for iPhone and iOS devices only (such as the CLEAR iSpot and the old Starbucks WiFi).
Forget the Clear iSpot, just jailbreak your phone and get MyWi. Why pay for more wireless service when you already have it? No spoofing required either.
[...] To be sure, it’s not always easy to learn a target’s MAC address. It’s generally not transmitted over the Internet. But anyone within Wi-Fi range can record it, and it’s easy to narrow down which MAC addresses correspond to which manufacturer. Someone, such as a suspicious spouse, who can navigate to the About screen on an iPhone can obtain it that way too. [...]
[...] To be sure, it’s not always easy to learn a target’s MAC address. It’s generally not transmitted over a Internet. But anyone within Wi-Fi operation can record it, and it’s easy to slight down that MAC addresses conform to that manufacturer. Someone, such as a questionable spouse, who can navigate to a About shade on an iPhone can obtain it that approach too. [...]
[...] who can navigate to the About screen on an iPhone or a laptop’s configuration menu can obtain it in a few seconds as well. And hobbyist hacker Samy Kamkar created a proof-of-concept code last year that uses [...]
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