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Is there a way to disable this?

• nairteashop 13y ago
  As far as I know, the only way to disable the WiFi "pings" is to turn off WiFi on your device when you don't need it.
  • darxius 13y ago
    Cool, thanks.
  • bigiain 13y ago
    And remember to turn off Bluetooth as well - the wifi and bluetooth MAC addresses are sequential - if you see one you know the other. More paranoidly… A femtocell could fool your phone into revealing your phone number over the GSM/CDMA transmitter's channel. If I were involved in some extremely high value sale where the identity of potential purchasers was not always known, and where knowing it earlier might help close a sale (perhaps real estate or luxury cars?) - it'd be _so_ tempting to at least trial soemthing borderline-evil like that. (And now I'm inventing a small network of femtocells with directional antennas in white vans parked outside competitors - to track which of your potential customers are visiting which competitors…)
  • tmzt 13y ago
    Do you know of a standard or general description of what this is called? Is it simply part of the 802.11(*) standards or something else?