On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 13:35:52 +0000
"J.Witvliet--- via users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> From: "John Mellor"
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> Date: Monday, 2 August 2021 at 15:04:42
> To: "users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
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Subject: Re: scanner no longer detected?
> On 2021-08-01 7:08 p.m., Cameron Simpson wrote:
> <snip
> Then, some mobo manufacturers
add the “option” to migrate your MAC…
> And not so long ago, mobile phone producers had a brain-fart, and named
that “privacy-mode”, randomizing MAC-addresses.
> <snip
And not so long ago, Linux
"experts" had a brain-fart, and named that
“privacy-mode”, randomizing MAC-addresses. :-)
Stable MAC addresses are used to track mobile devices. For activists,
journalists, spies,
counter-spies (for those who remember Mad Magazine), and drug dealers,
anti-tracking
measures can be useful (or even life-saving). MAC addresses can be used
to track
consumers in stores that sell customer data to aggregators.
Apple wants network vendors deal with aggressive randomization, and has a
big enough
share of the market to make it stick:
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George N. White III