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thisacctforreal on Sept 29, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices

What? This definitely feels like a fail for privacy, walking around essentially with a beacon.

Though perhaps with MAC Address Randomization it’s a non-issue?

But can’t it still be triangulated?

This seems like a major loss.

et-al on Sept 29, 2017 [–]

We really need to stop this idea of Apple's current implementation of MAC address randomisation being effective.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-b...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13839540

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