Comment on iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise — “From the get-go, this feature was useless,” researcher says of feature put into iOS 14

Confuserated@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  this is whitewashing Apple. It was introduced in iOS 14. A trillion dollar company like apple should have had this fixed long before.

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lol, and Apple didn’t even “discover” it themselves. It was 2 unaffiliated security researchers who did. Who knows if they even implemented any logic besides the UI.

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    • poopkins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you had read the article, you would have known that the bug relates to a very specific field inside a multicast payload and a network-specific unique MAC address is generated and retained as advertised. I’m not defending Apple; just reiterating the facts.

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      • eskimofry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The way multicast works is that the destination mac address starts with 01 00 5e and then next 3 octets (mac addresses are 6 octets long) are copied from the IP address lower octets. The mac address is always this when building the L2 headers for the packet.

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  • ink@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    apple should have had this fixed long before

    not if it was intentional. I mean apple bends over for authoritarian governments around the world. This could easily be used as a state surveillance apparatus and casually “fixed” when discovered down the road.

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    • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      yeah I agree that it was intentional. I can’t believe Apple didn’t properly test this feature. But I didn’t want to speculate without actual proof

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      • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Why not? Everyone else seems to be doing it, you’re probably just some Portuguese pastrie chef with a bad hair cut and a paid off mortgage

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hmm, tldr bot didn’t mention this…

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  • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is why we call it artificial intelligence, rather than digital intelligence.

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