Apple's Privacy Faceplant: A Cautionary Tale for Closed-Source Giants
Apple's Privacy Faceplant: A Cautionary Tale for Closed-Source Giants
Hello, Penguins! We will interrupt this week’s showcase friday to bring you a breaking news story. Apple just released an update to iOS 17 that fixes a bug that has been leaking users’ Wi-Fi MAC addresses for the past three years. This is a major privacy faceplant for Apple, and it’s a cautionary ta...
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Maybe you're right, but to me it's still worth it to point out those issues
I can't even with these people. Sitting duckz/suckersz doesn't even begin to accurately convey
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I don't think anyone believes apple is good for privacy and they are certainly not good for freedom.
Sooo what was the bug? That it didn't randomise MACs when connecting?
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So tired ugh
yeah, there was a feature that was supposed to do it, but they never implemented the feature properly, which made it literally useless, and it was discovered just now, 3 years later
How is this a problem when the hardware address is dumped once packets are out onto the web? Are you worried your router knows it's you? Outside your subnet, on the internet, your Mac address is not part of the packet.
that's wrong. the device exposed the real mac address on port 5353 (udp) which is apple's "bonjour" service, which acts as a service discovery/zeroconf network tool.
that means that other devices in the same network can know your real mac address, this makes it very easy for say ISPs to track you across networks if you use friends networks, open wifi networks in coffee shops etc.