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My question is how did he/she know that it was the MAC address that the WiFi used ?
by Beefin 8y ago
My question is how did he/she know that it was the MAC address that the WiFi used ?
- Illniyar 8y ago"And a router tells devices apart is by their MAC addresses" There is no other identifiable information a router can get out of a device without authentication
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoThat sounded wrong to me (I like a challenge), and of course some clever guys have already been and got at least 94% success at remote device fingerprinting. See p.1702 and use of carrier frequency offset (CFO) for fingerprinting, this paper discusses other methods and auth of AP/devices too; https://www.cs.ucr.edu/~zhiyunq/pub/infocom18_wireless_fingerprinting.pdf https://www.cs.ucr.edu/~zhiyunq/pub/infocom18_wireless_finge... .
- skyhawk 8y agoIn most implementations, MAC addresses are the only indication of the device