• Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think anyone believes apple is good for privacy and they are certainly not good for freedom.

  • LittleHermiT@lemmus.org
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    1 year ago

    How is this a problem when the hardware address is dumped once packets are out onto the web? Are you worried your router knows it’s you? Outside your subnet, on the internet, your Mac address is not part of the packet.

    • Danny M@lemmy.escapebigtech.infoOP
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      1 year ago

      that’s wrong. the device exposed the real mac address on port 5353 (udp) which is apple’s “bonjour” service, which acts as a service discovery/zeroconf network tool.

      that means that other devices in the same network can know your real mac address, this makes it very easy for say ISPs to track you across networks if you use friends networks, open wifi networks in coffee shops etc.

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        1 year ago

        Still within a subnet. If you connect to an internet cafe Wifi, you should be more worried about your dns traffic for identifying you.

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            1 year ago

            And so on and so on. If you want to be tracked, you can be tracked, regardless of a mac address, or the hoops a user jump through to create the illusion of privacy. I can think of lots of unconventional ways to track a naive user.