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Ok so putting this all together, if you run a hidden network at home that means your phone HAS to use a directed probe request to find that network which it wil
by jfrankamp 5y ago
Ok so putting this all together, if you run a hidden network at home that means your phone HAS to use a directed probe request to find that network which it will keep trying to do when you are out and about. Am I reading that right?
If so the best way to have a phone that doesn't leak is to have a home network that does... maybe?
- ThePowerOfFuet 5y agoExactly correct. Hidden network at home means your phone screams out for it all the time when not at home, because that's the only way it can find it.
- stingraycharles 5y agoIf only there was a way to know the location of an SSID! /s
- atatatat 5y agoWPA needs help.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> if you run a hidden network at home that means your phone HAS to use a directed probe request to find that network which it will keep trying to do when you are out and about That certainly isn't a theoretical requirement; the alternative is "if you run a hidden network, your devices will not connect to it automatically". You'd have to tell them to connect.
- steanne 5y agoor you have your phone turn off wifi once it's out of range of your specified ssid(s). several apps do that; i use https://github.com/j4velin/WiFi-Automatic https://github.com/j4velin/WiFi-Automatic