18.06.2014 - 05:48 [ boing boing ]

Apple adds privacy-protecting MAC spoofing (when Aaron Swartz did it, it was evidence of criminality)

Apple has announced that it will spoof the MAC addresses emitted by its wireless devices as an anti-tracking measure, a change that, while welcome, is „an umbrella in a hurricane“ according to a good technical explainer by the Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s Jeremy Gillula and Seth Schoen.