To all hacker out there, how in the world can a website grab your mac address from the browser http://oi61.tinypic.com/s263ib.jpg. I've heard responses from "it is not possible" to "they use flash". But this happens every time I go to Starbucks and I am pretty sure Flash is not used.
I'm posting on HN to get the low down if anyone who has ACTUALLY first hand know how on how this is accomplished.
If you are on their network then they can see your MAC address. That's how Ethernet works.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address#Spying for an example of how Apple has changed iOS so it uses a random MAC address. See also http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6868/randomizing... .