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Gaelan
on Nov 6, 2019
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Milan Airport WiFi sends your MAC address to adver...
IIRC (this is old and might have been wrong in the first place) iOS randomizes when it’s searching for networks but not when it’s connected to one.
angott
on Nov 6, 2019
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It’s not a bad idea. A randomized IP address at each connection would break many things on quite a few networks (IP-MAC static assignments, for instance).
ComputerGuru
on Nov 7, 2019
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There are other options, like generating a Mac based off the real Mac and the ssid or bssid.
m463
on Nov 7, 2019
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could your just push it down a layer, maybe 802.1x or something?
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