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Are you using random Mac addresses?
by sgt101 7y ago
Are you using random Mac addresses?
- jefftk 7y agoThe MAC address is not sent to the server, or accessible to web pages client-side, so that wouldn't matter.
- tcd 7y agoIt is if you're using Chrome or got any Google related properties installed on your PC.
- jefftk 7y agoI don't think this happens. How do you think it's being transferred? A header sent only on requests to Google properties? A special JS API in Chrome that only Google knows to call?
- dreamcompiler 7y agoIn theory. But it's not impossible for a nefarious browser to send it along as an HTTP header. Or a nefarious AP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21463266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21463266
- jefftk 7y agoYour link describes the Milan airport captive portal putting the MAC in the URL (don't do this). The referrer is automatically attached to any requests the page makes. This is a comically broken configuration, not something at all common.
- sgt101 7y agoI realize that the last time I liked at this was in the context of wireless devices on a private subnet - which is why I thought it might be relevant. However I am curious, why is it, then, that Windows 10 has gone for randomisation?