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This surprised me as well. I would speculate it is motivated by networks with SSID broadcast turned off. You'd never find them by parsing the network list.
by tobyjsullivan 13y ago
This surprised me as well. I would speculate it is motivated by networks with SSID broadcast turned off. You'd never find them by parsing the network list.
- graue 13y agoMakes sense, but I've never ever used such a network and so would gladly turn off this feature. :( It looks like the iPhone is (or was, as of 2012) uniquely bad because it leaks recently used MAC addresses, while it's common for devices to leak names but not MAC addresses: http://seclists.org/dailydave/2012/q1/59 http://seclists.org/dailydave/2012/q1/59