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Places like shopping malls use just your devices hardware ids to track your movements. To me just the fact that these things are on when you ask for them to be
by rando444 7y ago
Places like shopping malls use just your devices hardware ids to track your movements.
To me just the fact that these things are on when you ask for them to be off is problematic.
- slig 7y agoiOS does shuffle the MAC address in order to prevent this, doesn't it?
- djchen 7y agoYes, except if you connect to their WiFi.
- oflannabhra 7y agoYes, on top of this, applications don’t have access to a devices MAC address through CoreBluetooth, so they can’t fingerprint a device.
- baybal2 7y agoYou can shuffle your mac but not your gsm/3g ids broadcasted in the open as per spec. I first saw this tech, I think, 9 years ago when I first encountered a "bluetooth spam" device