Comment on Australian university(University of Melbourne) used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors

VagueDirector@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, its a reminder to turn on the built in security features in your devices like per use MAC address randomization.

  I dont know how it is on stock android, but when you turn on normal MAC randomization for a connection, then it will create a random MAC for that network but it will stay the same for that network indefinitely. So you could still be tracked across campus. To prevent that you need to turn on this setting show in the screenshot which will randomize the MAC every time you reconnect to a network with randomization enabled.

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  • quinkin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These aren’t open wifi connections where any of this would help, you connect using your university credentials.

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    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thats true i guess, i didnt consider that because i use shared credentials with a bunch of people on my campus.

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• zero_gravitas@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No idea what the protest in question was about

  The protests were in relation to Palestine/Israel:

  • theguardian.com/…/university-of-melbourne-surveil…
  • …org.au/…/unimelb-staff-statement-on-the-right-of…

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