Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6150 17 Feb 2026, 12:45

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 3:34.412 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
51.272
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.263
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
When I disable MAC spoofing in Tails Greeter 8.384
And I log in to a new session 13.849
And the network is plugged 0.070
And Tor is ready 14.685
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.080
And the 1st network device has its real MAC address configured 0.083
When I hotplug a network device and wait for it to be initialized 1.377
Then 2 network interfaces are enabled 0.091
And the 2nd network device has its real MAC address configured 0.082
And some network device leaked the real MAC address 0.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.036
Tags: @product
40.713
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.822
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
When I log in to a new session 14.109
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 15.713
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.065
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.107
When I hotplug a network device and wait for it to be initialized 1.481
Then 2 network interfaces are enabled 0.075
And the 2nd network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.091
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
Tags: @product
24.291
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.684
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.235
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns false 0.201
When I log in to a new session 13.076
Then no network interfaces are enabled 0.060
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.011
And I see the "Wired Network Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 2.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
Tags: @product
24.055
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.516
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.067
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns true 0.123
When I log in to a new session 12.163
Then no network interfaces are enabled 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.010
And I see the "Wired Network Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 2.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.061
Tags: @product
26.127
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.993
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.063
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns true 0.244
And no network interface modules can be unloaded 0.189
When I log in to a new session 13.943
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.106
But the MAC spoofing panic mode disabled networking 0.376
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.024
And I see the "All Networking Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 2.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.040
Tags: @product
47.951
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given a computer 0.219
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
When I start the computer 1.322
Then the computer boots Tails 45.998
And no network interfaces are enabled 0.382
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.060