Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6553 03 Aug 2026, 11:44

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Spoofing MAC addresses 55 0 0 0 0 55 6 0 6 2:42.986 Passed
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Feature Spoofing MAC addresses
In order to not reveal information about the physical location As a Tails user I want to be able to control whether my network devices MAC addresses should be spoofed And I want this feature to fail safe and notify me in case of errors
Tags: @product
35.702
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.083
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
When I disable MAC spoofing in Tails Greeter 7.986
And I log in to a new session 10.929
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 9.073
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.053
And the 1st network device has its real MAC address configured 0.086
When I hotplug a network device and wait for it to be initialized 0.230
Then 2 network interfaces are enabled 0.088
And the 2nd network device has its real MAC address configured 0.052
And some network device leaked the real MAC address 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.051
Tags: @product
30.865
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.083
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
When I log in to a new session 11.303
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 11.834
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.074
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.117
When I hotplug a network device and wait for it to be initialized 0.182
Then 2 network interfaces are enabled 0.099
And the 2nd network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.050
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.072
Tags: @product
20.654
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.273
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.017
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns false 0.082
When I log in to a new session 11.534
Then no network interfaces are enabled 0.054
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.090
And I see the "Wired Network Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 1.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
Tags: @product
19.976
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.117
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.018
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns true 0.113
When I log in to a new session 10.987
Then no network interfaces are enabled 0.053
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.093
And I see the "Wired Network Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 1.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
Tags: @product
21.042
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.139
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.018
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns true 0.104
And no network interface modules can be unloaded 0.133
When I log in to a new session 11.566
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.070
But the MAC spoofing panic mode disabled networking 0.307
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.093
And I see the "All Networking Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 1.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
Tags: @product
34.745
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given a computer 0.120
And I capture all network traffic 0.001
When I start the computer 0.778
Then the computer boots Tails 33.400
And no network interfaces are enabled 0.275
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.089