{"id":1196888,"date":"2023-10-26T17:48:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T21:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1196888"},"modified":"2023-10-26T17:48:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T21:48:04","slug":"iphones-have-been-exposing-your-unique-mac-despite-apples-promises-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1196888","title":{"rendered":"iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple\u2019s promises otherwise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Private Wi-Fi address setting on an iPhone. (credit: Apple)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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Three years ago, Apple introduced a privacy-enhancing feature that hid the Wi-Fi address of iPhones and iPads when they joined a network. On Wednesday, the world learned that the feature has never worked as advertised. Despite promises that this never-changing address would be hidden and replaced with a private one that was unique to each SSID, Apple devices have continued to display the real one, which in turn got broadcast to every other connected device on the network.<\/p>\n

The problem is that a Wi-Fi media access control address\u2014typically called a media access control<\/span><\/span> address or simply a MAC\u2014can be used to track individuals from network to network, in much the way a license plate number can be used to track a vehicle as it moves around a city. Case in point: In 2013, a researcher unveiled a proof-of-concept device that logged the MAC of all devices it came into contact with. The idea was to distribute lots of them throughout a neighborhood or city and build a profile of iPhone users, including the social media sites they visited and the many locations they visited each day.<\/p>\n

As I wrote at the time<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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