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The fact that WiFi advertises your MAC address whilst searching is quite annoying. Have there been any developments in randomising MAC addresses or other solut
by Jonnax 10y ago
The fact that WiFi advertises your MAC address whilst searching is quite annoying.
Have there been any developments in randomising MAC addresses or other solutions to this problem?
Edit:
I found this app called Pry-Fi:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.pryfi https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.p...
- floatboth 10y agoBack in 2014: https://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/06/ios8-to-stymie-trackers-and-marketers-with-mac-address-randomization/ https://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/06/ios8-to-stymie-tracker...
- gens 10y agoOSX, IOS and "NetworkManager"(linux) do that. Thing is that it is usually useless. Only instance where you would even send a package (thus showing your MAC) when searching is if you were searching for a hidden AP. Funny that Microsoft is the only one that got that right, as they have a checkbox that says "hidden AP". All others just assume that the AP may be hidden and try to connect anyway. (worse is that they scan in the background while you are connected. NM does it at least)
- ionised 10y agoThe developer of Pry-Fi started it as a proof of concept. He didn't have the time to continue developing it though, but said he might revisit it at some point.