iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi networks

Re:iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi ... by nnnnni on Monday June 09, 2014 @07:39AM (#7867922)

Hello, my name is Guy Incognito. My email address is [email protected].

Unless it requires you to click a confirmation link or something similar to that, just use a fake address at one of the example.TLD domains.

If they DO require confirmation, use mailinator or a similar service.

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Re:iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi ... by sbierwagen on Monday June 09, 2014 @02:31PM (#7869733)

Catch 22 there: you have to be able to access mailinator.com in order to generate a throwaway email.

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Re:iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi ... by refurb on Monday June 09, 2014 @02:54PM (#7869834)

Not with mailinator. You just choose a username and it gets sent there. No need to go to mailinator.com first.

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Re:iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi ... by userbinator on Monday June 09, 2014 @10:50PM (#7871644)

Requiring email confirmation assumes the fact that the user can already connect to the Internet to access his/her email to read the message, throwaway account or not, so that wouldn't work too well...

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Re:iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi ... by nnnnni on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @11:32AM (#7873102)

Connect with your phone long enough to confirm?

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Re:iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi ... by smsm42 on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @03:26PM (#7874757)

Possible, but never seen free wifi actually do that.

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