The receiver and/or transmitter address is hard-coded in hardware and cannot be changed; it can always be counted on to correctly identify the device transmitting. a, True or b. False

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Gaige Newton

13 December, 10:20

The receiver and/or transmitter address is hard-coded in hardware and cannot be changed; it can always be counted on to correctly identify the device transmitting. a, True or b. False

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Jair Bond · Answer 1

B. False.

Explanation:

A MAC or media access control address is an address hard-coded to a device by its manufacturers. It is the layer 2 address of the OSI networking model. It is used to identify, transmit and receive frames in a network.

The MAC spoofing is a process where program softwares are used to change a device's hard-coded MAC address.

Attacker uses MAC spoofing to change their system's MAC addresses to a MAC address similar to that of a computerin a network to infiltrate that network security.