iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise
“From the get-go, this feature was useless,” researcher says of feature put into iOS 14.
In case anyone hasn’t read the article, the bug that exposed the real MAC address is fixed in 17.1, released today
I take it that it'll also come as a security update for older versions of iOS like 15?
If you say so.
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!?
LoL
