Find mac adress from TOR, possible?

Long story short, had a visit from the local police today telling me I had been ordering stuff from the dark web. I said i of course did no such thing, but they insisted they knew it was me, and that they would get my mac adress and more to prove the order/comments were coming from my Pc. Is this actually possible? They do not have my Pc in their possesion nor did they get a chance to search it, as it is encrypted. Am i fucked or are they just trying to scare me into admitting something?


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[2 Points] MLP_is_my_OPSEC:

Like I said in this thread, your devices MAC address never leaves your home router, or whatever router you're connected to. So no it's not possible.


[2 Points] None:

Are you using tails? It spoofs your mac address by default. Either way I don't think there is anyway for them to trace your mac address remotely.

How did they find out you order from DNM anyway?


[2 Points] None:

*FORGET ABOUT THE MAC ADDRESS - CONCENTRATE ON HOW THEY IDENTIFIED YOU***

Well they must have some sort of intelligence on you otherwise how would they know it was you, it is not the MAC address because even if the mac address did leave the LAN or they obtained the router MAC address (assume they would need a court order to force the ISP to hand over that information) it is not actually tied to a person. They would only be able to use it as evidence against you once you were caught & not to actually identify you so what they are saying makes no sense.

Once it leaves the ISP then it is the ISPs mac address that is transferred (think of a mac address like a modified relay race where the batton is dropped at each change and a new one picked up)

My guess would be that you talked to the wrong person via subtle bragging (I tend to do this when I drink & kick myself the next day - you know - my drugs are so pure & I get them delivered to my door - the ego needs a feed & that is like junk food)

Perhaps one of your suppliers is on their radar and they know however I doubt it because they would know when a delivery is due and just wait for you to pick it up.

Forget about the MAC address, concentrate on the MOST IMPORTANT BIT OF INFORMATION - they found out who you are and they were accurate in the fact you utilise the DNMs

Now how the fuck did they figure that out? Find weaknesses, did you deposit to a bitcoin service via a bank teller - perhaps they are monitoring transactions like that, they know your name but do not know where that BTC has gone so they are rattling your cage trying to get you to confess.

Think of those sorts of things as its much more likely.


[1 Points] hyper_dnm:

MLP is right, your PCs MAC should never leave your router, however, your router itself has a unique mac address, and if you're connecting to TOR with your connection and they own the initial node you connect to, they could cross-reference it with router MACs at your ISP... I think that's how it would work anyway.

You may want to consider canceling your internet service, switching or just using your mobile for a while and lay low... but I'd junk your modem if I were you.


[1 Points] ParanoiaCat:

They are trying to bullshit you in self confessing. If they had shit on you for real, they wouldn't been explaining you what they will do but do it.


[1 Points] None:

They don't even know what they're talking about, probly don't even know what a Mac address is. Probably meant IP.


[1 Points] georgeagle:

do not say anything to self incriminate yourself. the police can lie to you about anything to get an easy admission of guilt from you.

you should not have even answered the door.


[1 Points] InvSig:

MLP is correct.

Although encryption does nothing to hide your MAC - they can just rip out the internal network card and get it.


[-1 Points] Purpledominoes:

Well they can get your mac address, but I don't know what they can do with it. The only way they could find out you were browsing this site or any site through tor using your mac address is if they somehow modified the code of the website itself to extract your mac address, not to mention they have to extract the mac of every visitor and compare it to yours.

I doubt they have done such thing to reddit, if they did, it wouldn't be hard to find out since all the code needed to get your mac address needs to be executed in the browser.