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Tracking Protection In Wi-Fi Networks Coming Soon To Linux
prisoninmate writes: Fedora contributor and NetworkManager developer Lubomir Rintel explains how your devices are being identified on a network by a unique number that most of us know by the name of MAC address. Same goes for mobile networking, as your laptop's or mobile phone's MAC address is, in most cases, broadcasted everywhere you go before you even attempt a connection to a wireless network. And that's a problem for your privacy. The solution? Randomization of the MAC address while scanning for Wi-Fi networks. Apple is already using this method on iOS 8 and later mobile operating systems, and so is Microsoft in Windows 10, so Linux users will ["likely"] get it in the upcoming NetworkManager 1.2 release.
Don't listen to murnues, above.
> My company is building tools that help businesses understand their customers through WiFi.
No, your company is building a tracker program by trying to make use of an oversight in the spec. In fact, shit like that is why this needs to happen, and why the lifespan of announced MACs needs to be short enough to render any information you may gather useless.
Did you pay for all those phones that the businesses customers are using? Like, do you own them? Or do they belong to people who don't know you and barely know the businesses you serve, and wouldn't help you if given the chance, just as you would not help them? They aren't YOUR customers, after all. They are cattle and you are getting pissed that you won't be able to herd them as easily.
This is a good thing, and I'm sad it has taken this long. Hope this gets pushed up to Android fast enough so your company can instead do something besides trying to track people who don't owe you shit and who you don't help in any way.