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 eridius on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:21AM (#13983372)

Clickbait 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.

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Re:iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out by andreyf on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:21AM (#13983375)

He explains his reasoning at the end.

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Re:iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out by eridius on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:24AM (#13983390)

That just looks like a bullshit justification for having a clickbait title. It's not like this title will make Apple pay any more attention to the issue. All it does is try to elicit pageviews from other people, while simultaneously misleading them (because the title implies it's a problem unique to iPhone 7, and not everybody is going to read the whole article).

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Re:iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out by andreyf on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:26AM (#13983402)

Fair. Although I'd presume he was genuinely unaware of the prior art here. A lot about wifi traffic is not what most people assume.

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Re:iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out by eridius on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:28AM (#13983408)

Well, they point out that Android does it too, so clearly they know it's not unique to iPhone 7.

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