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Re:Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate survei... by myopicgoat on Sunday February 18, 2018 @04:57AM (#16405263)
MAC address randomisation has been proven to be essentially useless: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02874v1
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Re:Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate survei... by tinus_hn on Sunday February 18, 2018 @08:32AM (#16405984)
Preventing every possible form of tracking is so difficult it’s almost a lost cause.

Preventing forms of tracking that are actually in use is much easier.

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Re:Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate survei... by goblins on Sunday February 18, 2018 @05:40AM (#16405399)
Having read just the abstract is seems that current implementations of Mac address randomisation is essentially useless rather the Mac address randomisation itself.

Hopefully in the future the implementation will improve. Until then WiFi is off.

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Re:Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate survei... by y4mi on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:22AM (#16406724)
Youre still being tracked by your phone service provider though.
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Re:Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate survei... by goblins on Sunday February 18, 2018 @12:04PM (#16406940)
Only as far as it goes. Tracking isn't as fine grained. Service providers main concern is the service. Can you be tracked this way? Yes, but not as easily as this is talking about
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Re:Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate survei... by stordoff on Sunday February 18, 2018 @07:25AM (#16405712)
Does anyone know how the MAC randomisation in Windows 10 devices stacks up? I'd assume it's better than a fixed MAC, but a quick Google search doesn't give much info. about how easily it can be sidestepped.
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Re:Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate survei... by Spivak on Sunday February 18, 2018 @05:46PM (#16409279)
The goal isn't to defeat every possible form of tracking, it's to make it more difficult than it's worth to track you. Do you think this system even bothers to take into account the tiny number of people who turn MAC randomization on?

I don't think my door lock is going to protect me against a professional locksmith, having one is nonetheless still useful.

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