Comment by danuker
3 years ago
> Human identification through wifi signals
It is already easy to track anyone who owns a smartphone.
Probe requests broadcast the MAC address: https://medium.com/@brannondorsey/wi-fi-is-broken-3f6054210f...
3 years ago
> Human identification through wifi signals
It is already easy to track anyone who owns a smartphone.
Probe requests broadcast the MAC address: https://medium.com/@brannondorsey/wi-fi-is-broken-3f6054210f...
Wi-Fi Sensing can potentially enable identification of humans carrying _no_ devices.
> Probe requests broadcast the MAC address: https://medium.com/@brannondorsey/wi-fi-is-broken-3f6054210f...
Summary is good:
> Wi-Fi is fucked, everything is broken, Donald J. Trump is president, and the earth is dying. Ok, taking a step back, you might be wondering what you can do to protect yourself. The solution is not without flaws; turn your Wi-Fi off when you aren’t connected to a known network. Doing so will prevent your device from leaking your network names and device fingerprint to the open world. The solution is awkward, easy to forget, and sub-par. But its what we’ve got.
That's why many vendors randomize MAC addresses, at least where and when possible.