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by therobotking 4389 days ago
There's a great app for rooted Android devices called Pry-fi that generates random MAC addresses while you're not connected to a network.

edit: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.p...

2 comments

Thanks for the tip!

In reaction to the iOS news, the developer of Pry-Fi wrote this post about the state of the application:

https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/Y4fjP6cH45v

Since the phone-specific Wifi stacks/drivers seem to be the main compatibility problem, I guess MAC randomization could be implemented as a Cyanogenmod feature on the device level.

OpenBSD's ifconfig has a flag that will cause the NIC to use a random MAC address, assuming your card allows for it.