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As of iOS 8 and Android 5.0 the operating systems should do it automatically.
by TACIXAT 9y ago
As of iOS 8 and Android 5.0 the operating systems should do it automatically.
- michaelt 9y agoresearchers found that "the overwhelming majority of Android devices are not implementing the available randomization capabilities built into the Android OS," which makes such Android devices trivial to track. [...] Apple, meanwhile, introduced MAC address randomization in iOS 8, only to break it in iOS 10. [...] its network probe broadcasts to include a distinct Information Element (IE), data added to Wi-Fi management frames to extend the Wi-Fi protocol. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/10/mac_address_randomization/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/10/mac_address_randomi...