IIRC the mac address randomizing code was[ half-baked and not random enough
]( https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/10/mac_address_randomization/ ) to be
anonymous. Android more or less gave up on the feature and it's hardly
implemented at all. But either way it's not a brand issue it's across the
board. Just turn off WiFi when not in use.
There's certainly legitimate uses for this technology but as with anything it
can be abused as well. I'm more comfortable with a Muni. or public safety
systems using it than a retail store.
For those of you that don't mind throwing wrenches in gears that shouldn't
exist there's a project called [ Linger ]( https://jaspervanloenen.com/linger/
). Something like this could make statistical analysis of MAC addresses nearly
impossible without some serious code to separate the noise.
As for amusing SSID's my personal favorite seen in the wild: [Bring back my
F*%!ing Leaf blower!]
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From: "Tim Cailloux" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 5:23pm
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Query to the group
I thought Apple pretty well pissed on this concept of user tracking (at least
with iPhone users) by psuedo-randomizing the MAC when scanning for WiFi
networks? I never paid enough attention to how well it worked, but I saw it as
a pretty big anti-tracking feature.
(Not sure about Android. I never had an Android phone I liked. They exist,
I'm sure, but I had bad luck.)
tim
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On Thu, May 11, 2017, at 17:19, Nick Bright wrote:
It's a widely used strategy in hotspot markets and large retail chains to track
movement within facilities. Since the data is all anonymized, there's not any
serious privacy issues; but the potential for abuse is there.
We do utilize a similar system in one of our wifi projects, to provide the city
with analytic data on their down town area; it provides them with information
that helps with chamber of commerce initiatives, public safety planning, and
festival analytic data. When used responsibly, this anonymized data does not
pose any privacy risk.
However, I do have say that the domain that original email was sent from does
seem dubious - it goes to a link farm landing page. It makes me wonder "Who is
really asking, and what is their real motivation?"
On 5/11/2017 2:11 PM, [ [email protected] ](
mailto:[email protected] ) wrote:
Jokes aside:
That sounds too "gray area" for my liking personally. While it's all
"technically" legal but still pushes some ethical issues with potential
collection of MAC addresses from unwitting parties.
Not that Lowe's and Target have any trouble with similar techniques.
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Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 2:48pm
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Subject: Re: [WISPA] Query to the group
Maybe he owns a donut store?
Jan V
On 05/11/2017 05:53 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:
"FBI Surveilance [sic] Van 7"?
;-)
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Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 1:04:41 AM
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Hi Everyone,
I'm looking to this group to feel out the feasibility of an idea.
I'm working with a project that is looking at doing a sort of "analytics". One
of the possible things this would involve would
be paying WISPs to collect data on a particular SSID (this SSID would be
controlled by the project I'm working with, so this isn't going into
any gray privacy grounds). The group would want to get the content of the
beacons seen with this particular SSID(s). It could either be done through
vendor equipment that would support it, or it could be done via a passive probe
colocated with the WISP's gear.
I thought I would float this idea out to the group to see how it is received.
Thanks in advance,
Chris Stradtman
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