iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out

Re:iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out by KayEss on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:17AM (#13983352)

Of 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.

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Re:iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out by mrexroad on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:18AM (#13983355)

Of course the neighbors could always find this out anyway by watching the driveway.

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Re:iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out by astrange on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:30AM (#13983418)

What would MAC randomization do? Let them think someone's broken into your house?

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Re:iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out by th0mat on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:21AM (#13983370)

Not true. Microsoft figured out how to do that. Google mac randomization Windows 10.

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Re:iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out by KayEss on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:24AM (#13983386)

They might choose a different MAC for each network, but surely for a given network they use the same one? Many people use MACs for securing access points and a continuously changing MAC would break that.

Your neighbour would be using some sort of correlation to work out the MAC anyway, so all they'll need is that it doesn't change over time for your access point.

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