This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. This issue is fixed in watchOS 10.1, iOS 16.7.2 and iPadOS 16.7.2, tvOS 17.1, iOS 17.1 and iPadOS 17.1. A device may be passively tracked by its Wi-Fi MAC address.
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Topics Security Off-Prem On-Prem Software Offbeat Special Features Vendor Voice Vendor Voice Resources Not exactly the MAC daddy
Three years after Apple introduced a menu setting called Private Wi-Fi Address, a way to spoof network identifiers called MAC addresses, the privacy protection may finally work as advertised, thanks to a software fix. "To communicate with a Wi-Fi network, a device must identify itself to the network using a unique network address called a Media Access Control (MAC) address," Apple explains in its documentation. "If the device always uses the same Wi-Fi MAC address across all networks, network op...
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