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Latest phones are great at thwarting Wi-Fi tracking. Other devices, not so much – study
Tuesday May 18, 2021. 09:29 AM , from TheRegister
Boffins find increasing MAC address randomization protection with mobiles
In 2017, US Naval Academy researchers found that MAC address randomization in mobile devices was largely worthless as a privacy defense. Three years later, the same research group took another look and found that while there's been meaningful improvement, many phones still fail to effectively prevent MAC address-based tracking.…
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