iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out
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iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out
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Re: iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out
#2This is known behavior: according to the iOS 10 Security white paper [1], "iOS uses randomized Media Access Control (MAC) address when conducting Wi-Fi scans while it isn't associated with a Wi-Fi network... Note that Wi-Fi scans which happen while trying to connect to a preferred Wi-Fi Network aren't randomized".
I haven't put much thought into it, but I wonder why they don't randomize all probe requests...
[1]: https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
Re: iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out
#3This is known behavior: according to the iOS 10 Security white paper [1], "iOS uses randomized Media Access Control (MAC) address when conducting Wi-Fi scans while it isn't associated with a Wi-Fi network... Note that Wi-Fi scans which happen while trying to connect to a preferred Wi-Fi Network aren't randomized". I haven't put much thought into it, but I wonder why they don't randomize all probe requests... [1]: htt…
I would assume because MAC-based whitelisting is a commonly used WiFi access control mechanism?
Re: iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out
#4Of course the neighbours could always find this out anyway by watching the traffic on your channel as there is never any MAC randomisation involved in talking to a known access point.
Re: iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out
#5Of course the neighbours could always find this out anyway by watching the traffic on your channel as there is never any MAC randomisation involved in talking to a known access point.
Of course the neighbors could always find this out anyway by watching the driveway.
Re: iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out
#6so does the presence of my automobile.
Re: iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out
#7Of course the neighbours could always find this out anyway by watching the traffic on your channel as there is never any MAC randomisation involved in talking to a known access point.
Not true. Microsoft figured out how to do that. Google mac randomization Windows 10.
Re: iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out
#8Clickbait title. There was a story recently that said that all of the devices had flaws with MAC address randomization. There's literally nothing special about the iPhone here.
Re: iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out
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Re: iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out
#10Clickbait title. There was a story recently that said that all of the devices had flaws with MAC address randomization. There's literally nothing special about the iPhone here.
He explains his reasoning at the end.