Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_closed-issues-design-doc 4 29 May 2026, 15:18

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 2:50.522 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
36.494
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.368
And I capture all network traffic 0.033
When I disable MAC spoofing in Tails Greeter 7.960
And I log in to a new session 11.573
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 8.941
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.061
And the 1st network device has its real MAC address configured 0.060
When I hotplug a network device and wait for it to be initialized 0.215
Then 2 network interfaces are enabled 0.101
And the 2nd network device has its real MAC address configured 0.063
And some network device leaked the real MAC address 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.039
Tags: @product
31.144
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.130
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
When I log in to a new session 11.467
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 11.851
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.060
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.069
When I hotplug a network device and wait for it to be initialized 0.290
Then 2 network interfaces are enabled 0.063
And the 2nd network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.084
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.035
Tags: @product
21.263
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.320
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.020
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns false 0.081
When I log in to a new session 12.144
Then no network interfaces are enabled 0.067
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.005
And I see the "Wired Network Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 1.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.028
Tags: @product
21.966
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.199
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.021
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns true 0.105
When I log in to a new session 12.902
Then no network interfaces are enabled 0.054
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.005
And I see the "Wired Network Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 1.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.046
Tags: @product
22.790
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.307
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.016
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns true 0.108
And no network interface modules can be unloaded 0.215
When I log in to a new session 13.080
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.069
But the MAC spoofing panic mode disabled networking 0.322
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.006
And I see the "All Networking Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 1.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.050
Tags: @product
36.862
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.063
And I capture all network traffic 0.001
When I start the computer 0.818
Then the computer boots Tails 35.641
And no network interfaces are enabled 0.331
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.041