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Re:The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature by slig on Saturday June 08, 2019 @08:21PM (#20136122)
iOS does shuffle the MAC address in order to prevent this, doesn't it?
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Re:The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature by oflannabhra on Saturday June 08, 2019 @10:48PM (#20136742)
Yes, on top of this, applications don’t have access to a devices MAC address through CoreBluetooth, so they can’t fingerprint a device.
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Re:The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature by baybal2 on Sunday June 09, 2019 @02:04AM (#20137441)
You can shuffle your mac but not your gsm/3g ids broadcasted in the open as per spec.

I first saw this tech, I think, 9 years ago when I first encountered a "bluetooth spam" device

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Re:The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature by djchen on Saturday June 08, 2019 @08:32PM (#20136159)
Yes, except if you connect to their WiFi.
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