> In fairness to Apple, the feature wasn't useless, because it did prevent passive sniffing by devices such as the above-referended CreepyDOL. Wasn't passive s

> In fairness to Apple, the feature wasn't useless, because it did prevent passive sniffing by devices such as the above-referended CreepyDOL. Wasn't passive sniffing the primary issue being defended against? So it sounds like it actually did the most important job. I am really curious how it managed to put the real MAC into this particular mDNS packet though, when presumably all other network traffic uses the randomized per-network MAC.