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The article title is "iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise". "please use the original title, unless it is misleading o
by lapcat 3y ago
The article title is "iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise".
"please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also, "Macs" in the submission title makes it look like Apple Macintosh rather than Media Access Control address.
- coloneltcb 3y agodidn't editorialize, this is what auto-populated when I submitted via the HN bookmarklet but point taken, will edit
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoI think the original title is baity, though. I mean, yes, I suppose the title is technically correct. But phrased another way: there was a security vulnerability which someone found and reported to Apple, and Apple fixed it. Isn't that how things are supposed to work? Unless you expect everyone to write perfect software on the first try.
- avidiax 3y ago> Isn't that how things are supposed to work? If your company is prioritizing security and privacy, no, this is not how it's supposed to work. This shows a failure of the process. By design/default, this MAC address should not be available to system or user processes in IOS. In general, even the randomized MAC address should not be available. The fact that it was available to the mDNS process indicates that there was no security/privacy review of its existing access, no technical measure implemented to break that access until a review or exception was put into place, and no test plan that validated that the MAC address is never sent on the WIFI radio.
- wannacboatmovie 3y agoHN auto-incorrects all-caps acronyms in titles when submitting a link. It is a very annoying "feature" with questionable purpose because it's nearly always wrong.