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They might have been interested in having the MAC addresses to check some suspects alibi, or even to find some links between groups of persons, not specifically
by _notreallyme_ 6y ago
They might have been interested in having the MAC addresses to check some suspects alibi, or even to find some links between groups of persons, not specifically PII.
Grenoble is under scrutiny for some time now, it has a bad reputation regarding drug trafficking and the government uses it to show its "strength" with police operations covered by the media. This might be linked.
- NeutronStar 6y agoMAC addresses are easily falsifiable...
- iso947 6y agoDon’t people scramble with MAC address every day anyway?
- Daniel_sk 6y agoiOS and I think Android are randomly changing the MAC address in recent versions and this is enabled by default.
- aksss 6y agoWin10 does this on open networks and maybe even protected but Public networks as well unless you override it or your hardware doesn’t support it (e.g. old). Source: https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/93/slides/slides-93-intarea-5.pdf https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/93/slides/slides-93-intarea...