Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month agoA lot of shit makes a new, random MAC address for every new connection to an access point now
Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month agoA lot of shit makes a new, random MAC address for every new connection to an access point now
JordanZ@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There is usually two types of MAC randomization and they both apply to wireless. One is pre-auth and is part of the IEEE 802.11aq Pre-Association Service Discovery spec. It makes it harder to track a user just because they got in range of an AP.
The other is when they actually connect to an SSID. Win10 and mobile OS’s started supporting this but it maintains a relationship between a MAC/SSID pairing otherwise you would have all kinds of network/auth weirdness if it didn’t.
Regardless if I noticed a device on my network behaving poorly by randomizing its MAC on every connection then I’d swap my network over to a grant list of MAC addresses and it can happily knock itself offline as much as it wants. Utilize a guest networks for visitors to avoid the headache of list management when a friend stops by and wants WiFi.
I can say I’ve never seen that behavior across all my devices though.
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