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misk@sopuli.xyz to Apple@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise

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iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise

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“From the get-go, this feature was useless,” researcher says of feature put into iOS 14.
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    In case anyone hasn’t read the article, the bug that exposed the real MAC address is fixed in 17.1, released today

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      I take it that it’ll also come as a security update for older versions of iOS like 15?

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        If you say so.

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    https://www.macworld.com/article/2118771/ios-17-1-private-address-security-hole-fix.html

    iOS would respond to address requests with a private address as the source, which made it seem like the feature worked. However, the researchers found that the real, actual MAC address was provided in a different part of the request-response

    That seems like a really sloppy implementation of the feature 😂 I’m glad they finally fixed it but how did it take three years to fix this!?

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    LoL

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