Re:Why Google Glass Broke
by snowwrestler on Thursday February 05, 2015 @09:56AM
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Why do people need to manually give you their MAC address for a non-secure network? Any "bad actor" could just sniff and copy an approved MAC address, so it does nothing for security. And while it's possible to look up the MAC address on some devices, it's not simple on any of them. This seems more like your shortcoming, not Google's.
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Re:Why Google Glass Broke
by nucleardog on Friday February 06, 2015 @05:41PM
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Well, for one it would stop employees accidentally connecting to the 'public' wifi and generating support calls when applications which relied on being on the secure/internal network failed to work. Or from devices automatically switching over to the public wifi when they had connection issues with the secured network.
Anyone clever enough to spoof their MAC address is clever enough to not generate a support call in these cases.