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> Were these protocols designed to be insecure? Why do phones/laptops continually broadcast a list of all SSIDs they have ever connected?
by walterbell 3y ago
> Were these protocols designed to be insecure?
Why do phones/laptops continually broadcast a list of all SSIDs they have ever connected?
- temporarely 3y agoFears of peasant uprisings is the only that comes to mind ..
- ChainOfFools 3y agoHow would this work for scenarios where people take advantage of the free network hotspot connectivity provided by some Wi-Fi and cellular providers? anyone who travels throughout even a moderately dense coverage area would swiftly accumulate a history of hundreds if not thousands of briefly-connected ssids? It seems like constantly broadcasting this data would result in fairly noticeable performance degradation.
- walterbell 3y agoWhat's an example of such a provider? Shouldn't the provider use a stable SSID?
- ChainOfFools 3y agoAT&T smart wifi is a recent example, it manages discovery of different system partner ssids through an app. But even if the SSID was exactly the same, the bssid would be different in every case, and that's the unique (mod spoofing) station identifier.
- jazzyjackson 3y agoin case this is surprising to anyone: https://blog.spacehuhn.com/probe-request https://blog.spacehuhn.com/probe-request https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/wi-fi-surveillance/497132/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/wi-fi... I'll see your conspiratorial bent and raise you: why is iPXE enabled by default?