This past July, an IEEE study group recommended that the Wi-Fi protocol needs to be updated to use randomly generated MAC addresses for better security and privacy. Those MAC addresses allow mobile users to be tracked by all sorts of busybodies (and curious researchers!), be they spies, crooks, advertisers, retailers, trash bins rigged to track passersby, cops tracking stolen devices, Sophos researchers warbiking through London, felines warprowling (with bonus mouse catching!), or Sexy Cyborg out warstrolling (with high heels packing Wi-Fi hacking tools, no less!). It’s the ability to scramble the hardware media access control (MAC) address that each mobile device uses when setting up Wi-Fi connections. Windows 10 has it.Īnd pretty soon, many Linux users will be able to get it, too.
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