XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: alice.jones-donotspam@ptd.net   
      
   Whiskers wrote in message   
   slrnnas02j.pc.catwheezel@ID-107770.user.individual.net:   
      
   > No.  Each device and each access point has to be uniquely and   
   > consistently identified so that you know which thing is talking to   
   > which.  Your suggestion would have everyone blasting invalid passwords   
   > at everyone else and no-one getting connected.  A good way to collect   
   > passwords, but not good for anything else.   
      
   Actually, it wouldn't work, but not for the reason you stated.   
   People make up MAC addresses all the time.   
   For example, I change mine daily on my laptop when I travel.   
   When I'm at a hotel, I always change it so that all devices use   
   the same connection (if the connection is limited to 1 device).   
      
   Cable subscriber 'clone' a MAC address all the time also.   
      
   So, changing the mac address is not causing "chaos" in the   
   world.   
      
   But, the problem is that you can't easily change the SSID's   
   MAC address, as Jeff explained. You can easily change the router's   
   WAN ethernet port MAC address, but that's the only one easily   
   changed on the router.   
      
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