A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system

Re:A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognit... by coldcode on Thursday May 11, 2017 @08:56AM (#14315618)

Not on iOS anymore, that value is scrambled on a regular basis.

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Re:A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognit... by 0xCMP on Thursday May 11, 2017 @10:31AM (#14316260)

This is super cool. Was there any announcement or documentation for this?

We used a Cisco Meraki router once for a client and rigged it up to know who was in the office (for fun, to be aware that it could be done). It'd be nice to know the iPhone/iPad scramble themselves if possible.

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Re:A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognit... by ghostly_s on Thursday May 11, 2017 @04:38PM (#14319290)

Apple made this change in 2014, it was widely reported. [1] Apparently it exists on Android now also, though I don't follow that platform closely.

1. https://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/06/ios8-to-stymie-tracker...

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Re:A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognit... by dylz on Thursday May 11, 2017 @07:45PM (#14320424)

Android does the same thing, both announced a while ago

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Re:A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognit... by mgberlin on Thursday May 11, 2017 @11:29AM (#14316769)

Only if your phone is locked and it is looking for all open wifi networks. If you unlock it or it is connected to a particular wifi network this is not true.

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Re:A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognit... by haddr on Thursday May 11, 2017 @11:35AM (#14316823)

No necessarily. If you are connected to some wifi and sending/receiving data, your MAC is still visible in the air.

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